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[12:59:35] Dev: Order! ::gavelgavel::
[12:59:57] Temporal: yes, quiet down, everyone!
[13:00:32] Dev: ..... good.
[13:01:06] Temporal: gmail isn't working. Grr.
[13:01:33] Dev: I know. I feel like a part of me has rotted and fallen off.
[13:02:16] Temporal: ...
[13:03:04] Dev: So anyway.
[13:03:38] Temporal: I missed visiting my family for this! (Thanks for the excuse!)
[13:03:58] Dev: Er .... like, extended family?
[13:04:02] Temporal: yes
[13:04:12] Dev: Hmm .... yes, I think I'd want an excuse too.
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[13:06:18] Dev: Horray for gouda!
[13:06:32] Captain Vimes: Like a swirling vortex in the continuum of space time, Temp has called me forth.
[13:06:41] Captain Vimes: Does that even make sense?
[13:06:56] Temporal: not really, but we'll let it slide
[13:06:57] Dev: Only if you think Temp is like a swirling vortex. o_O
[13:07:09] Temporal: A temporal vortex!
[13:07:18] Captain Vimes: ...Riiight.
[13:07:27] Temporal: well you did say space time
[13:07:36] Dev: I am ashamed at how much I laughed at that.
[13:07:48] Captain Vimes: Right, since both are inter-related. Which would prove you right, but I won't admit that.
[13:07:57] Temporal: but you just did
[13:08:14] Captain Vimes: Did I though?
[13:08:23] Temporal: hmm... Yep.
[13:08:33] Captain Vimes: Alright. I stand corrected.
[13:08:57] Dev: Your avatar's now available, by the way.
[13:09:13] Captain Vimes: Huh. Cool.
[13:10:58] Dev: And actually Vimes... I thought I saw something like that from you before, but I couldn't find it in the time I had. Was what you posted new or was it a revision of something?
[13:10:59] Temporal: sooooo
[13:11:15] Captain Vimes: Revision, since there were a few things I had to fix up.
[13:11:33] Captain Vimes: Geh. I'll resize my avatar later. Meeting first.
[13:11:35] Dev: Okay... so I wasn't going crazy. :P
[13:12:53] Temporal: well, none of the new people are here. Arg.
[13:13:28] Captain Vimes: We could laugh at them for not being in the same timezone as us.
[13:13:36] Dev: Hm. Maybe we should offer points to people who come.
[13:13:56] Temporal: you already get points for coming at saying stuff
[13:14:09] Captain Vimes: It wasn't official, though, so people don't know to appear.
[13:14:28] Dev: That's true ... but being here to hear stuff is valuable too.
[13:14:36] Temporal: what wasn't official?
[13:15:03] Captain Vimes: This meeting, and by official I meant announced, so giving people who appear points wouldn't work.
[13:15:18] Temporal: read the first line of text below the chat box
[13:15:19] Dev: It was announced at relaunch.
[13:15:35] Temporal: also in the relaunch news post, yes
[13:15:36] Captain Vimes: Oh. Heh. Whoops >_>.
[13:15:51] Temporal: perhaps we should post another news post to emphasize it
[13:16:03] Temporal: but... maybe not this week since I won't be here next weekend anyway
[13:16:10] Dev: But I will! ... probably.
[13:16:31] Temporal: well, if you don't mind running the meeting yourself, then by all means
[13:17:01] Temporal will be interviewing at Google next weekend.
[13:17:12] Captain Vimes: Put me up for a position in their army.
[13:18:05] Temporal: I think you have to be a robot to qualify for the invasion forces
[13:18:11] Temporal: wait, I'm not supposed to tell you about that
[13:18:36] Captain Vimes: Pft. They were saying they gots the learning algorithms down. It's all over the web.
[13:20:03] Dev: I'll gets your learning algorithms down.
[13:20:09] Captain Vimes: I was thinking after all this talk about next-next-gen consoles....if Google would release one thing, it'd be some super-console, designed to read games for all three systems. And their own games, so they wouldn't get sued. Side-ways compatibility!
[13:20:44] Temporal: eh. That's really not possible without licensing IP from the other companies, which they wouldn't allow
[13:20:52] Temporal: and that's not what Google is about anyway
[13:21:17] Dev: What would they call it? ... GoogleBoxStation-olution?
[13:21:43] Captain Vimes: That sounds like a ointment.
[13:21:59] Dev: ::cough:: Anyway! Do you have any agenda for FoI?
[13:22:16] Dev: That we three feel like discussing, at least...
[13:22:36] Temporal: well, our main problem at the moment remains finding people
[13:22:57] Dev: Finding the right people, no less.
[13:25:10] Captain Vimes: I'd like to know, will we actually flesh out the 'language' of eumonetics, or should we just name the techniques that the player can use?
[13:25:40] Dev: If we did flesh out the language, I'm not sure where we would use it.
[13:25:59] Temporal: I think that would be too complicated
[13:26:22] Temporal: all of the PC's that can use eumonetics only have a limited knowledge
[13:26:43] Dev: We do have the pyramid.... which is kind of the same thing, in written form.
[13:26:59] Temporal: what the hell does the pyramid represent, anyway?
[13:27:35] Temporal: I mean, any arbitrary phrase can be spoken in the language, so where does this fixed set of symbols come from?
[13:28:19] Dev: How is it arbitrary?
[13:28:19] Captain Vimes: Arbitrary phrase? I thought they had to enunciate a set sequence of runes to complete a 'phrase' to activate something.
[13:29:12] Temporal: err
[13:29:15] Temporal: it's a language
[13:29:21] Temporal: you can say whatever you want in it
[13:29:35] Dev: But only certain things will cause predictable eumonetic effects.
[13:29:58] Temporal: no... anything spoken in the language will
[13:30:29] Temporal: if you have a craving for pickles, you could say "Morph this rock into a pickle" and you'd have a pickle
[13:30:37] Dev: Not if you didn't have the energy to do it.
[13:30:41] Temporal: well, right