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One of the exceptions to my “don’t investigate fandoms you don’t participate in“ rule is that it’s fine if I do it by watching others talk about it. Here’s what happened when I did just that:

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to be fair, it would make a good ladder
assuming that the branches are sturdy enough
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this alley is dangerous . . .
brb
MMUULLTTIIPPLLEE RREEVVAALLIISS!!
back
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*PM64 ally switch sound effect*
that's a shame...
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art?
or screenshot?
*defies fears of fandom poking and INVESTIGATES*
wa
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LEVIATHANS?!
this is interesting
and I'm just three pages in
I don't know how to feel
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interesting...
replay value = $$$$$$$$$$$$
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"I believe it is safe to say that you have the horde's attention."
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wait wut
*crank noises*
someone said yippee and my brain was like "WAIT HOW DID THIS PERSON COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION ABOUT-"
and then I came to my senses
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in fact, given how much awesome stuff is written in it, I like this monospaced font
maybe I'll stick to gamja...
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something's definetly going on in this one
> BREAKPOINT - PAGE 7, #104
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online?
that's good news
you see, it you do a little work with the word "online" . . .
. . . you get the word "offline"!
but we are missing one denominator
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I noticed that, ever since I started expanding my cloud discography collection, my hunger for music has grown.

ENTRY B

- Get the original version of Close to Me

- Consider fishing up the song I'm currently listening as well

ENTRY A.2

I came up with an explanation for the [THREAD EVENT]. It has to do with . . . well, it feels a little too sensitive to let out of my brain in such a raw state. But I do have a plausible explanation, and it ties in with [POINTER]!

P.S. I came up with an idea for a musical even worse than my last one. This one is so out-of-character that I'm not letting the slightest detail out!

IN OTHER NEWS: I tried to draw that thing I mentioned on my whiteboard. This is what I made so far:

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?f9cce1ce25bbd44417bf8bd67f897fae.png

Quotes from yesterday’s journal entries:

ENTRY C

After getting the idea to draw a scene from the [THREAD] thread, I stumbled on an even worse idea: making a flat-out MUSICAL. Needless to say, this is not happening.

"My ear canal symbolizes a jar of vinegar."

ENTRY D

My day started with iterators, social difficulties and paying Slugcat a visit, and ended with O-EMS, big expansions to my cloud discographies and imagining Daybreaker singing along to We Built This City!

Just thought I'd say that real quick. I have company!

I got the idea to draw something from my active Colubrine Sector thread, but my art style is not set up for the kind of stuff involved in drawing it. Oh well, I have a whiteboard that is currently almost full, so I can try anyways.

IN OTHER NEWS: The problem that I won a “small victory“ over in my Colubrine Sector thread during my holiday vacation was never actually settled. Today, I made a realization over it, and upon reflection, the problem only seems to have grown.

I have a slight aversion to poking my nose into the details of fandoms that I don’t partake in. My involvement in a fandom is a binary property; either I’m completely out of the know, or I’m a fan. I have the aversion partially out of fear that my imagination will take details from the fandom’s content and do something embarrassing with it.

In other news, my latest writing is very scientific . . .

. . . However, the cold air gets a head start on heating through an unexpected exothermic process. As oxygen is collected by blood cells, it produces heat. The amount of heat produced by the reaction - referred to as Delta-H - would usually be reabsorbed as the blood cells release the oxygen, but changes in the molecular environment can change how much heat is produced or consumed by either reaction. As oxygenation and deoxygenation happen in different areas of the body - and thus in different environments . . .

More quotes straight from my brain’s mouth:

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this is your wake-up call to put CLASSIC INVERTED COLORS to GOOD USE in the CONTRAST CONTROL DEPARTMENT!
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that's quite the UI you got there
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I'm a little concerned about the setting
and the orientation
like, is he standing up or lying down?
and if the latter, what is he lying on?
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ohhh, you're in a pickle
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WE HEAR YOU
the sun is cheese
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there's no way that was easy to build
the electric air pump in my dream last night definetly wouldn't cut it
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there's got to be some reason to it
the shape of those boxes . . .
could it be . . ?
ah, an airlock system
ingenious
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BEEP BEEP
nobody's home!
the first domino
off we go!
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we begin with . . .
. . . well, I wouldn't call her that, not even away from her face
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dispersion?!
that's worrying
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sadly, black noise is not a thing
actually, it is a thing
it's called silence
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classic invert is your friend
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mouth shapes
probably just snow or something
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imaagine if I accidentally left an IRC window open overnight...
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I casually walk into the room. This seems to be some sort of break room. Hopefully this is the kind of room where I can put the final part of my plan into effect. I climb onto a couch […] and try to look like I’m sleeping.

A few minutes later, I hear the door open. I expect to hear a gasp, but instead, I hear, “[NAME]? What have you been doing?”

I open my eyes. It’s Josh. I say, “There you are. I was wondering if you were going to show up. Now we can put the final part of the plan into motion.”

“I was wondering why you’ve been drawing so much attention!”, Josh says. “There’s no way that the stuff you’re doing is going to fly under the radar!”

“It doesn’t need to go unnoticed,” I say. “In fact, the last part of the plan takes us into the spotlight.”

I’m currently making one of my longest writings yet. When I finish it, I intend to follow it up with a remake of one of my past writings, followed by another long writing. It currently adds up to 2,856 words.

The next time you find something intriguing and cool, open some sort of text input mechanism - a new .txt file, an IRC window, a word processor document - and record the things that your brain says as it says them. In hindsight, you will enjoy it.

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sorry, let me fix that
neutron star causin' problems
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what do those two lines meeeaaannnnnnnnnnn
and that cross...
and . . . everything, for that matter
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*water noises*
we still have yet to have an answer to the thing on the right
do you ever have the urge to just . . . try to decode something that you know is gibberish?
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THERE'S STUFF IN THE MARGINS~!
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scroll slowly
diesel
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they. don't. have. noses.
which you can't blame them for
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we're back where we started
...it's iridescent
is that out of the ordinary?
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the printer broke . . . along with the autoclave
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I know an elevator shaft when I see one
honk
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let me find that
*gets sidetracked*
NEEDLEFISH CAM
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. . . there truly is nothing to see here
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I finished a very short writing. Here are some of the more notable quotes:

• Character #1: "After four briefings from [#2], along with my own analysis and consideration of the data he provided, I deem that you are innocent."

• Character #3: "So, I was thinking of something earlier. I was considering the fact that ethics seem to be the problem here. I thought that, maybe, we could get them started on that by setting an-"

• Character #2: "Hold the thought! I think I got Josh on the line!"

• Character #3: "I'm keeping it under wraps. I don't have all the details worked out yet. Just keep your eyes and ears open . . .”

Scientific advancement
is a fascinating thing
	genetics
	neurology
	biology
to you

I wrote an executive summary of Colubrine Sector’s current thread, which I made in case I ever accidentally leak the contents of the thread & have to explain the thread in a hurry. In addition to that, I wrote a poem-ish writing that follows a unique, agenda-shaped format.

Today, I used Shazam on the same song TEN times, and got different results every time. Similar things happened with other songs.

My holiday vacation ended yesterday. In other news, here’s something that happened in Colubrine Sector during yesterday’s road trip:

: *Autoclave by The Mountain Goats* “This is what's currently playing. The name makes it sound like Colubrine Sector might like it.”

: “Hmmm . . . the lyrics do seem interesting.”

(silence)

: "In Which The Autoclave Stops Working."

: “. . . what?”

: “Huh? What does that mean?”

: “The mention of an autoclave reminded me of the thread that Landon really likes. I got the idea to use that as a chapter name.”

I think that something I made this morning created a new Colubrine Sector thread and damaged the prominence of my preferred thread. Oops.

However, do have some intended changes and expansions for Colubrine Sector coming up sometime. I have created four separate personifications to represent the four aspects involved in the process of daydreaming: inspiration, unconscious filtering, conscious filtering and creation. I have designed four characters to represent these aspects. I’ll get back when I decide whether or not to keep a typo that I made in one of the character’s name.

Shower thought: is getting data collectors off your tail as easy as asking them to erase your data under GDPR? I opened the Wikipedia article on GDPR, and here are some extra thoughts that came with it:

• One of the listed lawful purposes for processing personal data is “If the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data“. You probably didn’t consent to being tracked.

• “A data controller may not refuse service to users who decline consent to processing that is not strictly necessary in order to use the service.” What if I asked to get out of the service altogether?

• “A data controller must provide, upon request, an overview of the categories of data that are being processed as well as a copy of the actual data; furthermore, the data controller has to inform the data subject on details about the processing, such as the purposes of the processing, with whom the data is shared, and how it acquired the data.” The companies must have prepared arguments against GDPR if this is in here.

• “Article 21 of the GDPR allows an individual to object to processing personal information for marketing or non-service related purposes. This means the data controller must allow an individual the right to stop or prevent controller from processing their personal data.” Yes, this is what I was looking for!

Hypothetical rules for B4CB:

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?abd9abdef17a198d8d1cae05db50569b.svg

• You start with one large central outpost with 1000 troops.

• Every turn, you select one outpost to build another outpost. The building outpost must have at least 10 troops in it, which will be transferred to the new outpost when it is built.

• You can choose to build a larger outpost with a bigger land claim. This will require 100 troops from the building outpost.

• Outposts can be built anywhere on a landmass that has another outpost on it, as long as the path to the new outpost does not pass through the territory of an enemy outpost. Outposts can also be built anywhere in the building outpost’s territory, even across water or in enemy territory.

• Alternatively, instead of building an outpost, you can attack an enemy outpost. The enemy outpost must be on the same continent as one of your outposts or be within the territory of one of your outposts. If you send more troops into battle than there are at the enemy outpost, the outpost is yours, all the enemy troops are killed and the troops you sent to battle the outpost stay at it.

• Troops can be transferred between outposts as a free action. Transferring follows the same range rules as outpost building and fighting. Troops must be transferred through one outpost at a time, but in any quantity.

• When a central outpost is destroyed, all of that player’s outposts are removed. Last player standing wins.