User:Wormulon/Stuff

This page is well, for things which don't fit elsewhere. Trivia about me, this wiki, music that goes with my fiction, favourite quotes and more. Arguably they could be on my main userpage, but I don't want it too large.

Who I am

Basically, I don't like revealing too much personal information and I used to be very anonymous. In the future however I hope to spread my prospects on the internet and that requires a break of anonymity. I'll tell you my first name is Toby, that I'm 20 years old (but been here for 6 years) and happen to live in the United Kingdom, roughly the border between the Midlands and North, close to rural areas. As such, I tend to like the countryside (like the Peak District) more than cities, I like pubs more than clubs. I think I was probably brought up culturally in working class in terms of attitudes, so in certain cases I'd probably have such tastes. I'm generally more bottom left on the political compass. In terms of beliefs I'm atheistic (apathetic type), but I do look at Eastern Philosophy for occasional life consulting wisdom, that, and I'm a fallibalist. More on what that means later.

And important aspect of my personality is that I have asperger's syndrome, which in some ways I praise and others, feel compressed by. As such I think people can view me as eccentric if they are nice, odd or witless if they are mean. The negative side is that I do struggle more with social contact, and I have to cope with deep anxieties about things, or get distracted. On a more positive note, I think in the way it effects my personality, I can become deeply interested in things until I absorb most of my life and time into. Sometimes they are unconstructive, others, more constructive. But I'm finding some of the things that were once unconstructive, are becoming better and better. My time on SporeWiki for example, has had a side effect that it unleashed a window for me to be creative, to write fiction, make 3D models, and to learn the processes of programming and design, which I believe schools are now starting to teach children as life skills.

One of my lecturers tell's me that I learn psychomotively, that is, a psychomotive learner tends to struggle when put to work on tasks by others, but is capable of deep personal research, they tend to think through hypothesis and abstract relationships. I think its possible being autistic contributes to that. I'm not saying I'm a super-genius, there are different kinds of learners, each with positives and negatives. Like I said, I can become distracted (I have a terrible problem with avoiding maths), I'm a slow learner, I'm certainly not a deductive thinker as a consequence (I'm not very practical, not very common sensed!). I've come to realise a lot of what I do is down to this principle. I can bring up random conversations or rants on IRC, and will continue to (because a couple of years ago I failed my first year at university all because I was so afraid of my autism showing that I shut myself from others, even help). I tend to concentrate on speculative science fiction, I tend to argue passionately. I can also be a tease. If you don't like it, there is a heads up for you.

What I do

My life has been fairly normal really though my family are pretty free spirited so I've had some adventures and perspectives. When I was younger, I used to live on a narrow boat and was for some time home educated. Aside from outdoor activities (and recently, pubs and music festivals), my main interests are in science and in particular, geology and physics (and especially everything in between). I've got an Extended Diploma in Countryside Management & Conservation, some Open University courses in planetary science and palaeobiology. I have been currently studying both geology and interactive media at the University of Leicester and Confetti Institute of Technologies, I aspire to be a scientist but with a background in programming. Because programming is a useful tool for visualisation and simulation in science, and if I am unable to get a job in science, programming is useful elsewhere.

I think I probably want to be a planetary scientist as its in-between in many ways. I enjoy physics and philosophy with a passion, but I also like geology for its fieldwork and lab research, and as I said, I like the outdoors. And some geology careers can take one to far off places, exploring is another aspiration of mine.

In my free time, I read and write science fiction and edit this wiki, go to music festivals and gigs (usually rock music) and play games mostly (I live simulation games and open worlds). I enjoy cooking as well when I can and I've decided lately to take up running. In the outdoors I quite enjoy camping trips, boating, cycling (I like watching professional cycling too), rock scrambling and mountain hikes, but I don't do enough of any this anymore. When I did countryside management I used to like off-road quad bikes and driving tractors. I used to make dry stone walls and lay hedges. Other things I used to like were star gazing and cloud spotting. Often in the evenings, I take up meditation. I'd quite to learn martial arts as well in the near future. I still haven't had a relationship, should I bother with one on top of all this? I have to be careful I don't isolate myself. One of the reasons why I meditate is to analyse the limits of each plan or thought of oneself.

Who I am on the wiki

I've been editing under a user account since 2008 (I remember visiting for a at least a year beforehand for updates on Spore and to be inspired by concepts the first community was making), which is a long time now even though it doesn't feel like it. I remember SporeWiki's golden age and want it back.

I've become an admin and eventual bureaucrat of the wiki, probably because I shouted the loudest for it when the old guard of admins left. I like to maintain on this wiki both a sense of "democracy" and "collaboration". I have stated that wiki's are not democracies regarding the issue of polling, though the alternative I stand for, that is, collaboration and debate of ideas, is democratic in terms of knowledge. I prefer to be neutral point of view in moments of social breakdown on the wiki, though I'm not perfect.

In some ways I think I've lost what I was. I used to be passionate about learning what wikis were, editing the pages and databases (like the Taxonomy Project), and learning new code magic. Unfortunately I admit I spend more time writing fiction today, but who knows, now my programming interests are rekindled lets see where it takes me. I want to create new community wide projects that are necessarily fiction, for example.

Other wiki's I visit and edit: Infinity: The Quest for Earth (founder), Maxis Wiki (cofounder), James Cameron's Avatar Wiki (editor, though I find it hard to edit anything there), Spore Fanfic Wiki (regular), Star Wars Wiki (visitor), Memory Alpha (visitor), Stargate Wiki (visitor), Uncyclopedia (visitor), Gaming Wiki (contributed to Spore and Infinity) and Wikipedia (editor). Furthermore, I've helped out countless wiki's.

Spore

Between 2008 and 2011 Spore was the game I played the most. I've always enjoyed the idea of making imaginary worlds but operating under certain laws or rules, when I was younger I used to love thinking up alien ecosystems, so when I learned about Spore, I was already hooked on the game concept.

The concept for Spore isn't respected in my opinion. The game itself was overhyped but I still think the breadth of the idea for the game in incredible, I think Spore is strong and unrivalled both in procedural programming and creativity. Will Wright I recall, also wanted Spore to inspire people into subjects like science, game design or programming, or indeed to simply be more creative. SporeWiki has users of all trades creeds really. There are artists, people who love animation, 3D artists, people into computer science, mathematics and software, people who like game design, linguists who speak a variety of languages and make their own up, musicians, science and science fiction writers/readers. The conversations here soon get deep.

I do wish Spore's evolution to be less linear, which was one goal but it became limited by complexity of the programming involved as Will Wright once explained to someone who asked whether it could support someone evolving a virus that could infect space civilisations as a means to evolve.

My best editors in Spore are the spaceship editor (I know its the easiest!) and adventure editor, as I found ways to not be limited by the complexity metre. The limits of complexity has never really stopped me from creating what I wanted, in fact, I rejoice it for it adds a challenge and lets one refine their creation. Some of my creations did get popular on the Sporepedia, with a little helping hand from Sporewiki of course. My creature and captain editing skills were starting to catch up until I stopped playing the game. I was never good with the building editor and I admit, didn't like it much.

The creature and spaces phases were my favourite. Many people criticise the space stage for being too much, but I like the sandbox mode precisely because one can start thinking up new ways to play the game, and one can start to think about fiction... I always found the tribal stage frustrating, and the cell and civilisation stages are simply too short but very fun.

Favourite Stuff

Interests

• Science
  • Earth Sciences
    • Geology - I find most interest in; Geophysics of the Earth's interior and lithospheric mechanisms, metamorphism, mineralogy and crystallography using thin sections, geological fieldwork (to interpret palaeo-environments).
    • Meteorology - Not as interested as I was, but I used to love weather watching as a kid. I wanted to be a Tornado hunter once.
    • Planetary science - This perhaps is my favourite scientific interest, as it combines all my scientific interests. You have Earth Science, astrophysics, quantum mechanical modelling of crystal lattices and Earth's core, the hunt for alien life and seeking of our own life, comparative planetary science, space exploration, robots and AI, modelling our climate that might save us all, Humanity's possible future on other worlds...
    • Palaeobiology/Evolution - Particularly Abiogenesis, Cryogenic Eon, the Cambrian explosion, the rise of Mammals, evolution of Carnivora and Creodonts, and most of all, the evolution of Homo sapiens.
  • Physics; in particular: Special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, information physics, cosmology.
  • Other
    • Astrobiology, xenopsychology - What is the nature of aliens? What is the nature of their minds?
    • Astronomy/Astrophysics - Interesting space objects.
    • Theory of Computation, Emergence & complexity, AI, Cognitive science - I have a mixed interest in these topics. Is the universe computable, or not? Is our minds algorithmic, or is consciousness operating on deeper physics?
    • Programming and 3D modelling as a tool for science.

• Philosophy - Note that these are interests as opposed to beliefs, and I often change my views.
  • Of Epistemology and physics: Falsifiable and explanatory power seem like viable methods to explain the world where empiricism fails. Also how does knowledge grow and evolve, what makes good explanations? How are we to solve problems? What is our place and our future in the universe? What is meaning, beauty and truth? Are mathematical and abstract objects real and what is their relationship with the physical world? Does time flow or is it static? Is the universe deterministic or probabilistic?
  • Eastern Philosophy - Its more a personal, than academic philosophy for me.
  • Fallibalism - I don't think we can be 100% certain, not even such a claim can be made to be fallibalist. Even "I think therefore I am" is not infallible, because memories can be false memories!
  • Scientific realism - I am a scientific realist, that means I believe science is more than tool to make predictions, it is to understand and explain what is actually there in reality, an explanation must be good before it even matters if its testable, and many phenomena are unseen (but still refutable). We scientific realists are a strange bunch, while we believe science can make objective explanations, we acknowledge the world isn't directly observed. In that sense, I'm an indirect realist too, which implies we don't see the world directly (we don't even feel the electrical signals in our brains directly, it is unseen to us but neurobiology has survived the tentative refutations provided by conjecture and testing) but instead our perceptions. In a sense, our mind is a virtual reality regulated by sense data but still a model.

• Other things
  • Anomalistics & the nature of magic - I am not a believer or pseudosceptic, I do find there is some mystery here, and should be studied with healthy scepticism.
  • Indigenous anthropology, primitive skills and survivalism - I always bring a survival kit when I go off to wild places, I like the programs by Ray Mears and Bear Grylls. I also think we shouldn't lose our skills to survive in nature.
  • Mythology
  • Ancient Astronauts and Lost advanced civilisations - I like to entertain the idea, but its bullshit really.
  • History - In particular: Ancient times, Industrial Revolution, WWI & WWII, history of knowledge.
  • Dialects

Love to hate - Philosophies I don't like is descending order

1) Anti-intellectualism, antiscience, extreme relativism

• Postmodernism
• Creationism
• Right wing conspiracies - Once I was almost a slave to conspiracy thinking. I suppose I don't like Left conspiracy either. But Right Wing conspiracy is often anti-reason, rejects Enlightenment thinking and anti-progress (hence immoral).
• Epistemological nihilism

2) Positivism, in particular its stance against scientific realism, falsifiability

• Logical positivism
• Instrumentalism
• Radical empiricism - I'm not against observation or empirical data. But the concept that the truthness of ideas come directly derived from perception can't be be right.
• Inductivism
• Certainty - Truth is obscured by philosophies pertaining absolute certainty. The search for certainty was destroyed time and again in the history of science and mathematics. It stirred enough paranoia in the late 19th century and early 20th that opponents of certainty were cast as mad. This could have had a damming effect of the fields of thermodynamics, infinite sets, incompleteness and so on.

3) Other

• Behaviourism
• Finitism
• Intuitionism - Holds that our knowledge about nature or mathematics is deeply inborn. But as science marches on, it is revealed how false our intuitions can be.
• Formalism - I used to be a formalist and didn't like platonism
• Pessimism

Quotes

“"We are told no, we are unimportant, we are peripheral. Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that and then you're a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash thats being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?"”

- Terence Mckenna on reclaiming your mind

“The universe is but the dream of the god, who after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep, and the universe dissolves with him, until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself, and begins again to dream, the great cosmic lotus dream. Meanwhile, elsewhere, there are an infinite number of other universes, each with its own god, dreaming the cosmic dream.”

- --Carl Sagan

“These great ideas, are tempered by another, perhaps still greater. It is said, that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather, that the gods, are the dreams of men.”

- --Carl Sagan

“Our thoughts, our visions and our fantasies have a tangible, physical reality.”

- Carl Sagan

“What we see of the real world, is perhaps not the unvarnished real world, but a model of the real world, regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed, so its useful for dealing with the real world, the nature of the model in our head, depends on the kind of animal we are.”

- --Richard Dawkins on perception.

“You only find human beings, on a planet of this kind, with an atmosphere of this kind with temperature of this kind, supplied by a conveniant neighboring star. Just as a flower is flowering in the field, I feel myself as a person peopling the whole...Universe. I see, like everything ese, to be a sort of vortex, at which the whole energy of the universe, realizes itself, comes alive, a sort of apecture, for which the whole universe is conscious of itself. Each one of us, not only human beings but every leaf, every weed, exists in a way it does only because everything else around it does.”

- --Alan Watts

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

- --Arthur C. Clarke

“A Dreeeaaam to some... A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!”

- -- Merlin, from Excalibur.

“The old world will burn in the fires of industry, the forests will fall, a new order will arise. We will drive the machine of war with the soul, and the spear and the iron fist of the Orc!”

- --Saruman, Lord of the Rings

“They will have time enough, in all those endless aeons, to attempt all things and gather all knowledge... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow from creation; for we knew the universe when it was young.”

- --Arthur C. Clarke, on how great civilisations may become near the end of the age of stars.

“I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”

- Stephen Hawking when asked about his IQ.

“The Human minefield is no less complex than the Animal one, only far less straightforward.”

- Vulturewing, whilewhile in deep discussion on IRC

“A boss is like a nappy. Its always on your ass and its usually full of shit!”

- TheHachi

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?”

- Stephen Hawking

“The map is not the territory.”

- --Alfred Korzybski

“Who is the great master that makes the grass green?”

- Robert Anton Wilson

“People always talk about pi, but they forget that there's also e, and that you need to multiply the two together to get pie.”

- Ghelae

“PS4 killed the Xbone! Call the ambulance! Wii U Wii U Wii U Wii U Wii U!”

- OluapPlayer

“Never refuse a pint from someone richer than you.”

- My Lecturer.

“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”

- First verse of Auguries of Innocence by William Blake, which I interpret as the power of knowledge.

People

• Interesting characters & TV people
  • Alain Robert - The "Human Spider", yet he has vertigo.
  • Bear Grylls - Get lost in the wild with Bear and if you survive you'll be in the pub/bar by the next day.
  • Ray Mears - Get lost in the wild with Ray, and you'll be getting comfortable in the wild for a month... Eating bugs.
  • David Attenborough
  • Dynamo Jack - Superhuman powers?
  • Dynamo - A Magician.
  • Derren Brown
  • Ice Man (Wim Hoff)
  • Edward Leedskalnin - The man who built Coral Castle, from what he claimed were ancient techniques. He apparently used mysterious devices to move rock like balloons filled with hydrogen, although nearly always when people investigated him they found he had no advanced tools at all. He made it for his fiancée Agnes Scuffs who left him before their wedding.
  • Will Wright - He has some interesting ideas on games.
  • Lawrence Blair - Explorer, adventurer, psycho-anthropologist, actor, director, uncovers myths and magic.
  • John Hutchinson - Inventor? Hoaxer? Whatever he is, he seems cool.
  • Rich Stein and Ainsley Harriot - Best chefs.
  • Sir Patrick Moore - Had an astronomy show 50 years in the running. Met many great people.
• Cyberpeople
  • SporeWiki community
  • Vsauce (Youtube)
  • Brussup (Youtube)
• Intellectuals - I've listed only those I've read/seen the most about.
  • Albert Einstein
  • Arthur C. Clarke - Great visionary.
  • Alan Watts - Interesting British philosopher who found connections between modern science and eastern philosophy.
  • Bernhard Riemann - A mathematical genius.
  • Bertrand Russel - Philosopher
  • Brian Cox
  • Brian Greene
  • Carl Sagan - Great populariser of science.
  • Colin Dawes - A paleontologist I knew.
  • Georg Cantor -
  • Gopi Krishna
  • David Deutsch
  • James Maxwell - Discovered the union of electrity and magnetism.
  • John Selby - Great Kundalini book.
  • John Wheeler
  • J.H.Brennan - Awesome books on the occult.
  • Kurt Gödel
  • Leonard Susskind
  • Ludwig Boltzmann
  • Michio Kaku
  • Nikola Tesla - So ahead of his time! Wireless electricity, lightning guns and so much more.
  • Rob Byranton
  • Roger Penrose - Very interesting theories.
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan - Another giant of mathematics, who without formal training made talented contributions. He recieved some of his equations through visions of the goddess of Namagiri.
  • Stephen Hawking - Not just he theories, but his incredible superhuman will-power to live.
  • Stephen Baxter - My current favourite author.

Favourite movies and TV series

• Sci-fi - Hard
  • Bicentinnial Man
  • Equilibrium
  • Sunshine
  • Solaris
  • Moon
  • Primer
  • Kpax
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The year we made contact
• Sci-fi - Soft
  • District 9
  • Avatar
  • Monsters
  • Ghosts of Mars
  • Westworld
  • All the Star Wars movies and spinoffs!
  • Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9. Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Final Frontier, Star TreK: First Contact, Star Trek: 2009
  • Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick
  • Stargate SG1, Doctor Who Series 3 to 6, Babylon 5
  • Starship Troopers I, II, III
  • Mad Max Trilogy
  • Children of Men
  • Dreamcatcher
  • The Abyss
• Fantasy/surreal
  • Avatar Airbender
  • Donnie Darko!
  • A Serious Man
  • The Lovely Bones
  • Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • Excalibur
  • 300
  • Gladiator
  • Water World
  • Kung Fu Hustle
  • Boewulf
• Psycho thriller (or monster)
  • The Last Excorcist
  • Predator
  • Jeepers Creepers
  • The Host
• Zombie
  • Braindead
  • Black Sheep
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Day of the Dead
• Cowboy Western
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Other
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Samurai Jack
  • White Fang
  • Balto
  • Eight Below
  • Iron Will
  • Borat, Bruno or Ali G
  • Kill Bill
  • Lion King
  • Good morning Vietnam
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Animal Farm
  • Vault of Horrors

Favourite books/audiobooks

• Sci-fi - Hard
  • Xeelee Sequence
  • Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
• Sci-fi - Soft
  • Star Wars Coruscant Nights series
• Fantasy
  • Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
  • Power of the Five (or Gatekeepers)
  • Inheritance trilogy
  • Series of Unfortunate Events
  • White Fang
• Secret Intelligence
  • Alex Rider
• Other
  • Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were
  • Dragonology

Favourite space battles!

• Star Wars
  • Of course is every battle in Star Wars and the Expanded Universe is epic.
• Star Trek
  • First Battle of Deep Space Nine
  • First Battle of Chin'toka
  • Second Battle of Chin'toka
  • Enterprise D vs. Husnock
  • Any battles with Romulans, Borg or Species 8472.
• Stargate
  • Battle over Antarctica
  • Wraith and Ori destroyed by sinked up black hole
  • Ori invade through the Supergate
  • Battle for Valhalla
  • Battle of Asuras
  • If the Goa'uld invaded Earth
• Babylon 5
  • Centuari bomb Narn and show no mercy
  • How the Earth-Minbari war begins and show no mercy
  • Shadows show no mercy to the Narn, either
  • War of the gods!
  • Earth Alliance attack Babylon 5
• SporeWikiverse
  • Galaxies at War, Tigris War, March of the Apocalypse, New Grox Wars and War of Hyperspace has had the biggest space battles.
• Other sci-fi
  • Final battle of Baryonic Life
  • Exultant
  • Borg vs. Shadows
  • Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek
  • Sci-fi smashup
  • The International Space Station fights the Nazis
  • Earth robots vs. alien robots

Anomalistics

Unlike truly unsolved scientific problems, these phenomena are often witnessed by people, but are rare enough to make the study of them difficult. But unlike paranormal beliefs, forteana and anomalistics is concerned with finding scientific explanations. Listed here is a load of such phenomena, some have been explained and others have not.

• Natural world - Rare, wonderful and strange phenomena
  • Aurora borealis & australis - An 'honourable mention'. There is a mystery as to whether claims of sounds are real or imagined.
  • Astronomical mysteries: Tyche (do we have unknown companions in the outer solar system?), 774–775 carbon-14 spike, Transient Lunar Phenomena (Sir Patrick Moore witnessed these events, which now are thought to be gases escaping the lunar surface), Tunguska event, can a lunar eclipse cause pressure changes in the atmosphere?
  • Ice: Ice heaves, Penitentes, Ice Brinicles
  • Rare/Outstanding geological phenomena: Tsingy of Bemaraha (Italy), Wulingyuan National Park (China), Richat Structure (Mauritania), Sailing Stones (Death Valley, US), Dolomite landscapes (formation still undecided), Cone-in-cone structures (unknown cause), Earthquake lights, Eternal Flame Falls
  • Climate/Weather: Kerala Red Rain, Catatumbo Lightning, Ball Lightining, St.Elmo's fire, Nacreous and Noctiluscent clouds (which are on the increase), Cloud tsunami (occurs once or twice a year), Upper-atmospheric lightning
  • Similarcrum? - Certain Out-of-Place artifacts, Hidden Character Stone
  • Unexplained sounds
  • Life on Earth
    • Flowers growing on steel - Could be Lacewing eggs.
    • Chimp religion - Chimps have been shown to move to certain waterfalls and do rituals such as a raindance. A case of practising spirituality or a case of applying human values to animals?
    • Hundredth monkey effect - Signs of a collective unconscious between species?
    • Cryptids I'm open minded to: Almas, Orang Pendek, Yeti, Sasquatch, Black Dogs, British Big Cats (seen one clearly), Mokele-mbembe, Mongolian death worm, MacFarlane's bear, Mapinguari, Bunyip, Ebo Gogo, Thylacine, Caspian Tiger, Onza, Sea Monsters - Could some of these creatures be on the verge of extinction, or simply mutant versions of existing animals? Or could they in fact be cultural memories of animals known to exist in prehistoric times? Or they hallucinations?
    • Relatively unheard-of habitats: Lake Vostok (Antarctica), Socrota Archipelago (Yemen), tepui habitats, brine pools and clines, Methane clathrates
• Man-made/accidental
  • Door to Hell
  • Centennial Light - A lightbulb that stayed working for 110 years.
  • Out-of-place Artifacts - Certain ooparts such as the Antikythera mechanism have been confirmed, suggesting ancient civilisations were more advanced than we give credit.
  • Dyatlov Pass incident
  • Vela incident
  • Flannen Isles mystery
  • Spontaneous Human Combustion - Regular accounts of people being heavy smokers/drinkers.
• Strange places
  • Valley of Death, Siberia
  • Bermuda Triangle - An example of a mixture exaggeration and rough natural causes?
  • Zona Del Silencio - Radio anomalies and it is reported that an Athena missile was "grabbed" into the zone.
  • Aokigahara
  • Hessdalen Valley lights
• Unusual events, forteana, anomalies
  • www.forteantimes.com Browse Forteantimes and you will find many anomalies posted.
  • Few percent of UFO sightings that remain unexplained - E.g. Kinross Incident, JAL 1628, Rendleshem Forest, Battle of Los Angeles, Valentich disappearance, Phoenix Lights, Foo Fighter phenomenon etc... Mass hallucinations? Black Project aircraft? Or something not of this world?
  • Ghosts, faeries, time warps, alien abduction - There are similar themes in all these cases: lost time, transport to other dimensions or times, spiritual experiences, strange beings, and yet no evidence or physical traces whatsoever. Influced by culture and time period, it suggests these are mental phenomena. What could be the cause of them; Psychosis? Induced hallucinations from outside causes? Or are they examples of telepathic communication from other realities? Could hallucination be behind the UFO phenemonon and various cryptid reports?
  • Vela Incident
• Mind/body connection
  • Meditation, internal alchemy - Meditation is a method of gaining access to psychosomatic nervous, cardiovascular and immune systems and neuroplasticity. Lung-gom-pa runners, control of body temperature, and extreme resilince to pain are some examples. Certain record-breaking divers claim to use meditation.
  • Placebo and nocebo effect - There is probably a relationship with meditation and certain alternative medicines, like acupuncture. Some scientists do consider these issues worth of study.
  • Psychedelic insights and Hypnagogia - Particularly in the 20th century, certain people who would become mathematicians and computer scientists took psychedelic drugs. While often regarded as damaging today, some considered insights gained by their visions to be useful. One example is the development of fractals, how some involved were inspired by visions. they have had. But altered states aren't always drug induced, as meditation, biofeedback or even the phenomenon for hypnagogia, the "half-sleep state" have convinced some they can access their subconscious.
  • Tulpas and magic - In Tibetan Buddhism, it is believed in some ways similar to Indirect Realism that our perception of reality is an illusion. The concept of magic therefore would be to create lucid states of mind in the dreamworld, which would is believed to be just as real as 'real-life'. Eventually even creating such magical illusions in the real world (mass-hallucination?). From my experience with dream yoga, real-life does feel more "lucid" the next day, and I felt more control over my life, and I was also able to do Tummo meditation. Is it possible we all live in a consensus subjective reality where magic manifests as collective delusion, or was I embracing psychosis? What Tibetan Buddhism reminds us of is that even magic is an illusion, and not to be fixated in it.
  • Voices and Angels

I would suggest that nearly all unexplained phenomena that leaves no physical evidence, is indeed mental, not physical or supernatural. To believe in them existing outside the mind is to embrace madness, and yet there is also a connection between insanity and genius. Rather than attacking these ideas out-right, we should study why humans have emotional-mystical experiences.

IRC nicks

Don't bother stealing them, when I go on IRC, people know whether its me or not.

• Wormy_ - My typical nick.
• Wyrmy
• RETURNoftheWORM - After the IRC disconnects and sometimes reconnect into this nick.
• Ambassador_Kosh - There is wisdom in his words, even if its a bit cryptic.
• Frank_the_Bunny - Lol.
• Im_the_Moon
• Im_not_a_robot - New one I'll use occasionally.

I often pick random names.

Non-verbal test thing

See http://www.hypnoid.com/psytest2.html

Verbally and mentally fluid, you are refreshing and illuminating to those around you. This is occasionally somewhat discounted by the obvious pleasure that you take in exercising your mental acuity. Although generally peaceful you can often take a verbally aggressive tact in relations with the world, which can often be misunderstood by those around you. Innovative in the extreme, you can often think yourself right out of the correct answer to a given problem. Many times you are referred to as your own worst enemy. You tire very quickly of routine and so make poor clerks or administrative help. You also have no respect for authority and little patience for those you regard as inferior, most especially those in charge. Experimentation is your watchword and can occasionally lead to experience for its own sake and shallow decadence. Your thought can sometimes be scattered and disconnected.

Strangely enough, I find similarity to my personality in all those.

Handy in the real world manipulation of objects and events, you are easily enthused by practical projects. You often ignore or conveniently forget rules and boundaries that limit your freedom. This need for freedom extends even to the personal sphere and though you are kind and gentle, you will often be hard to pin down to a monogamous lifestyle. Because you tend to verbalize so seldom, you can be seen as phlegmatic or impassive. In moments of high tension you can often surprise those around you with a lighthearted or humorous remark. Because of your facility with the physical world, you are often engaged in sports that require dexterity, such as motorcycling or hang gliding. You will rarely have time for flights of fancy or unproductive discussion. Constraints on your freedom will be regarded as a personal attack.

Second test is not quite as accurate. I'm not very practical but I do get enthused by my activities and interests. I don't like rules and I am very liberal, and it is true that I can be so enthused by something I can forget the boundaries exist that often ruin something else. I rarely have time for flights of fancy but despite this I often think about them too much.

Type of atheist

First of all this is a philosophical stance I take that does reflect my life. I do not wish to force my way down your throat. With all the types of atheism and degrees of strength, its quite hard for me to characterise one kind I belong to. So I took a test:

• 96% to scientific atheism
• 75% to meditative atheist
• 67% to apathetic atheism
• 25% to angry atheism
• 21% to militant atheism

I guess all this correlates with pragmatic (weak) atheism, which is also implicit atheism.

When it comes to scientific atheism, I value explanatory power (scientific analysis and falsifability), progress of humanity, education, critical thinking (plus open mindedness and optimism). I also feel that science doesn't diminish the awe and beauty of nature. This does not conflict with my meditative atheism, Carl Sagan's quote: "We are starstuff, contemplating the stars" has strong emotional resonances in me anyway. I do meditate for self-improvement, and I've even had what some would call spiritual revelations. But I consider them not as supernatural, but self-empowerment and enlightenment.

The low percentage of angry and militant atheism pleases me. I do not the see the point in getting worked up over religion when afterall, falsifiability demarcates supernatural arguments from any Theory of Knowledge. The supernatural implies the unknowable, which doesn't interest me, since I don't value blind faith. However, should any religious person wish to debate with me, they will get one, because I value debate. This demarcation is why I reject God/gods (or any ad hoc, pie in the sky philosophies), this would make me an explicit atheist. But at the same time, I cannot disprove yet that the universe isn't designed, only that I do not believe that is a scientific stance to make (god of the gaps). So I am apathetic to a creator (say, a universe-building Type IV civilisation), but explicitly would reject a supernatural creator, since I do not see it as a strong argument to believe in.

If a god did reveal itself to me, I think I would remain apathetic. First of all, I live in my mind entrenched by concepts, I cannot objectively know that it is not my imagination (indirect realism). I also do not see why I should be considered a lesser being, because humans are beings and the god is also a being, and why should my life be forced to subjugation? We live in a world where this is becoming politically unacceptable, at an increasing rate. Power afterall, is a human concept. So is the so-called order in the argument for design, human brains seek order, no wonder we see it everywhere. I believe whenever we look out into the cosmos, we see parts of ourselves. It is the methodology of science which allows us to avoid pie in the sky.

Why do I value demarcation? Progress. But isn't that scientism? No, because I do not believe other theories of knowledge in philosophy (such as concerning the arts) are inferior, and that I think progress is possible in all good philosophy and methodology, be it art, morality, society, knowledge, perception, technology, mathematics, logic, or whatever. Who knows, maybe one day we will know the connections, such as why flowers are beautiful.

Lastly of all, it is also why I am wary of metaphysics and nihilism. Science often unveils the unseen, which is often nothing like our anthropocentric perceptions, and the world is often nothing like what we think it to be. But we can know! Through like I said above; explanatory power. Anyone arguing against this is a fool, for they are using technology built by knowledge. Like in existentialism and nihilism, I do not believe we are the centre of the universe, or have a meaning - but at the same time, I do not think we are "chemical scum", since we are in fact for all we know, the only beings in the universe capable of looking back on itself. We embody the universe's consciousness. And before anyone quote mines me, I am not trying to support pantheism or saying we are god.

But we are beings...

Types of people Wormulon doesn't like

If you are one of these Wormulon probably doesn't like you.

• 1) Dogooders/PC Brigade, Nanny State, Council officials - My number 1 foe. I hate you people, you are miserable f*s who spend their lives moaning and making other peoples lives a misery. You can't stand to see people having fun even if there is a slight risk involved, because you think your judgement is golden. You have ruined any sort of fun in my country, with your over-the top Health and Safety laws. When you people trip over a curb you go and complain to the state when its your damn fault. I had fun in the Tomatina festivel in Spain, but it would be impossible in the UK because of you lot. I have you know, the reason why the our youth is so unsettled and riot is because they can't let of steam in more productive ways. Certain council officials annoy me, like the type who fined this mother after her child dropped crumbs in a park, it was unjustified and just a way of making money. I HATE YOU ALL.
• 2) Close-minded, peccismistic, buzzkilling doubting tomasous - I don't dislike sceptiscm, but these kind of sceptics are stoopid. They believe they have a perfect view of how the world works. People like these have caused a lot of trouble, including the extinction cryptozooligical species, because you don't think they exist, don';t help finding these elusive creatures and they die out. Shame on you. Optimists build worlds, peccimists don't.
• 3) Those who hunt for sport (Fox hunting), and those who disrespect nature - For gods sake, if you are going to hunt an animal it should not be sport (survival or conservation maybe). You often make up stupid excuses for it as well. I don't like people who vandalize or chuck rubbish at natural or historical places or objects either, you are sick and ruin for everyone else. But of course, that is because you don't have a life.
• 4) The Elite - The greedy people in control.
• 5) Naccistic people - These kind of people can only see their own nose.
• 6) Chavs - Got nothing to say here.
• 7) Snobs and rich people who don't deserve their money or are up theor own areses.
• 8) Fundementalists and ecowarriors - Fundementalists of anything I don't like, such as ecowarriors who hate humanity. Yes, we should respect nature but that doemn't mean Humans should be seen as evil.
• 9) Dictators and manners of cruelty and evil.
• 10) Trolls and many idiots comment on Youtube, as well as n00by kids who log into MMO's not for their age grroup and wine when they get killed every 5 seconds.
• 11) People who think they are special and deserve special rights - You need re-education. Annoying parents who get in the way on purpose because they are with their child, old people who think they can have it all for free etc.
• 12) User friends - Not to be confused with wiki users. These are people who pretend to be your friend but just use you as a service.

Basically, if you have read all this, all are examples of stuck up people.

My thoughts and rants on stuff

I feel like letting them out. They are probably just incorrect and a bunch of random crap put together.

How to build a universe

Steps to create a universe.

• You will need: A high-mass star, quark matter, an inflaton nugget weighing about ten grams
• Only if these theories are correct: Plancks Constant, Inflaton Theory, String Landscape Multiverse.
• References: I took note from The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene, Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku and the story Planck Zero by Stephen Baxter.

The Big Bang itself was not a single event, it is an ongoing one. So when it comes to the ignition, where do we start?

• Step One: Quark soup

First you need a nice warm soup of quarks. You do this by melting matter by tremendous temperatures, such as colliding heavy nuclei (you should siphon them from a star first to get enough), or simply drain it from a neutron or quark star's core. At a certain temperature, the nucleons that define baryonic matter melt into their constituent quarks and gluons. Increase the temperature a little more, and three of the four forces of nature are unified into a superforce. Don't cheer yet, there is a lot more steps to to go. Eventually you will reach the planck temperature at 10³² Kelvin. At this point, conventional physics break down.

• Step Two: Reducing Plancks Constant

This is perhaps the most complicated and tricky step. Plancks Constant is a fundamental law of quantum mechanics, it dictates the values of particles (and thus the atomic structure that binds matter). According to the uncertainty principle, particle themselves are not discrete points of their values, they are waves, the wave defining their planck values. An important feature of the Uncertainty principle is that a quantum particle such as an electron has a wavefunction that is spread over a small volume rather than in one place. You can observe the position of the particles wavefunction, however, it is impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particles wavefunction, it can only be one or the other. The size of these volumes is governed by Plancks Constant.

What must be done in the quark soup you have created is to reduce these planck volumes. If they are reduced enough, then both the position and momentum of a particles wavefunction can be observed at once, a violation of a fundamental law which defines reality (the Pauli Exlusion Principle, the fermions can begin to act as bosons). Because the laws of physics break down at planck temperatures, this could be possible. As the quark soup begins to cool you can begin to control the ratios. Now it begins to get dangerous in two ways...

• Step Three: The Inflaton field and some dangers

At the moment you have a small ball of cooling quark matter, make no attempt to touch the inside. Plancks constant has changed, the electrons might not bind the atomic structures in your hand, making them crumble, plus the kinetic energy distributed on the surface of the bubble would probably create a shockwave that would disintergrate you. But the bubble isn't a universe yet.

As the modified superforce soup cools (which it will do very quickly I might add), there will be an initial particle, the inflaton (should the theory be correct that is). The inflaton will roll down its energy curve, as it does, creating new particles, roughly 10⁸⁹ (of each) photons, electrons, neutrons, protons, neutrinos and their anti-matter counterparts within the expanding inflaton field. Where do these particles magically emerge from? Gravity itself. Gravity actually has a infinite well of energy for the seed to inflate. Extracting the gravitational energy the bubble of false vacuum begins to expand. It starts weighing less than ten grams yet being 10⁶⁷ times as dense as an atomic nucleus. It would be about 10^-26 centimeters across, making it very small. But it will expand rapidally.

What happens next is guesswork. You could have destroyed the universe, or at least the current state, not only re-writing the values of matters constituents but also destroying the uncertainty principle, shattering quantum physics. However, we might be lucky.

• Step Four: The detatchment process

Hopefully, a different process might occur. The expanding seed would have negative outward pressure and positive energy, but ordinary spacetime outside would have almost or perhaps exactly zero pressure, which is much larger than negative pressure. But inflaton still needs to expand. Where will it go? The inflationary bubble would grow into its own domain. Its hard to imagine this process, don't bother, all you would see would be a black hole, where its gravitational well had pinched off of our universe.

As it expands into its own space, its dimensions will unravel. The shape of the dimension would determine what the universe would be like. When its shape is formed the baby universe will find its part of the landscape of universes (the String Landscape). There is thought to be 10⁵⁰⁰ different types of universe, perhaps only a few allow for intelligent life, perhaps others house different things of complexity. Either way, there would be no way to know whether you have created a universe which can support life, or a universe which might quickly die, or something else entirely. It might be like this universe, there might be lots of quantum versions of this baby universe, one just like this that are created as well.

• Step Four again: If all goes wrong

If the universe begins to re-write itself, don't panic, stay calm. The star you used for Step One could be given a noble death. The inflating seed might fall into its core, because Plancks constant would change the Pauli Exculsion Principle which causes the star to not implode on itself. Without this principle, the core will implode. The implosion would create a black hole, which would enveloupe the false vacuum, either destroying it or also causing it to expand into a new universe.

In either case, there is no way to contact your universe, not unless you somehow threaded a wormhole to it or are capable of fantastic technological feats. You go home to your family or friends. You eat your dinner, if you even have any of them, considering you might have sold your home to make up for the budget and your relatives and allies have not left you. But you know, content, that you have a one in 10⁵⁰⁰ chance of creating a universe exactly like this one.

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My thoughts <rant> about immortality

I don't believe in true immortality, I think its as impossible as a a self-flowing flask, we live in a universe in which energy becomes less and less usable as systems become more and more chaotic. While I would like to live a very long life, I would not like to live a truly immortal one.

• Types of immortality

There are lots of types of immortality, I will skip over the technological versions, and while they may grant you a long life (even very long), I do not think true immortality is possible as neither are fail proof.

• "Genetic therapy"
• "Digital immortality", mind uploads and cybernetics.
• Breeding immortality
• Cryogenics
• Lifestyle

All of the forms above are life extending possibilities, but none, assure complete safety from death. In the first, "genetic therapy", to increase the lifetime of cells by replcacing the lost DNA as they divide. In a way., cells commit suicide, for if they could do this they would be cancerous. Cancer cells are immortal, that is why they are so dangerous. But as the cells divide naturally the genetic information of which we humans are becomes more and more corrupted, this is why we age. Proposed methods of "genetic therapy" and extreme lifestyle choices can indeed slow aging, perhaps in the fature using nanotechnology almost to a standstill. This is an exciting prospect. But A)this procedure must be carefully handled, get it wrong, and you could make yourself very ill, B) there is huge philosophical issue here. Every seven years or so it is said that most of our cells would have completely regenerated, even the atoms inside them. But the genetic information (what I call the genetic soul) remains, but getting ever corrupted (aging). If genetic immortality is applied, how much does the individual change information-wise? In five centuries, five-hundred centuries even, does the person forget who they were? In this case, immortality becomes an oxymoron because the original evolves into someone or something else. Then again, if the consciousness doesn't know this, then did it die?

Then there is "digital" immortality. It is unknown how consciousness could be transferred, but it is thought that the "uploads" would be copies. The original mind isn't transferred in this view. The copies may feel like you, but are they you? The same goes for clones, who probably woudn't share your personality anymore than an identical twin at best.

If we remember the above statement "Then again, if the consciousness doesn't know this, then did it die?", perhaps slow replacement of immortal nanotechnology could create a copy of the original mind that didn't experience death.

There are lots more less known proposed techniques, but neither offer any clean unchaging immortality, all except for one, quantum immortality, but currently that is merely a thought experiment.

• Unhealthy for society

IRC moments

The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide

No offense to Mocha, this would catch out many, including me perhaps.

• [22:47] <Xho> masses even
• [22:47] <Xho> solar masses
• [22:48] <Mocha2007> SOLAR MASSES.
• [22:48] <Xho> Yes
• [22:48] <Xho> Solar Mass
• [22:48] <Mocha2007> I know what that is.
• [22:49] <Mocha2007> I KNOW WHAT EVERYTHING IS MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
• [22:49] <Xho> Pi to 5,734,621 places then
• [22:49] <Mocha2007> okay...
• [22:49] <Mocha2007> 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
• [22:49] <Bio21> XD
• [22:49] <Mocha2007> darn it...
• [22:50] <Mocha2007> that WAS five million seven hundred thirty four thousand six hundred twenty one though...
• [22:50] <Mocha2007> before they took all of it away...
• [22:50] <Mocha2007> :(
• [22:51] <Wormy> Name me how many possible configurations of Inflatonary universes are in current understanding.
• [22:51] <Mocha2007> okay...one second...
• [22:51] <Wormy> Based on the topology of braneworlds
• [22:51] <Xho> Wow, the core of that massive explosion.....
• [22:51] <Xho> Still 8900 AU
• [22:52] <Xho> -87 K still
• [22:52] <Mocha2007> MANY.
• [22:52] <Xho> 739628 light years
• [22:52] <Wormy> The number?
• [22:52] <Mocha2007> calculating...
• [22:52] <Xho> -_-
• [22:52] <Mocha2007> by the way you mispelled a word.
• [22:53] <Wormy> Yes
• [22:53] <Wormy> But it doesn't bother me
• [22:53] <Mocha2007> 7, depending on the model.
• [22:53] <Wormy> Its 10 to the power of 500 at the very least.
• [22:53] <Xho> Fail
• [22:53] <Wormy> Is dihydrogen monoxide dangerous? No googleing it.
• [22:53] <Mocha2007> I used a different model.
• [22:53] <Xho> hur
• [22:53] <Mocha2007> NO ITS WATERR!!!
• [22:53] <Mocha2007> DUH!!!
• [22:53] <Wormy> Wrog
• [22:54] <Wormy> Wrong
• [22:54] <Wormy> Water is dangerous
• [22:54] <Xho> Trolololol
• [22:54] <Wormy> Hur

Technobliterator joins the HIVEMIND

• 20:44.53 Wormy Techno joined the HIVEMIND
• 20:45.04 OluapPlayer Oh deer
• 20:45.08 Wormy 1:44] <Wormy> Or this http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Quantum_slipstream_drive
• 20:45.16 Asdruabel Really?
• 20:45.20 Wormy [21:44] <TehnoIsBack> or, quantm slipstream?
• 20:45.24 Wormy There
• 20:45.29 Asdruabel You are now part of me Techno
• 20:45.34 Asdruabel Slaanesh will corrupt you
• 20:45.36 OluapPlayer Oh god
• 20:45.44 OluapPlayer That sounds creepy
• 20:45.46 Wormy How many are in the HIVEMIND now
• 20:46.02 Asdruabel 5
• 20:46.28 OluapPlayer Me, Xho, Um, Imp, Wormy and Jo
• 20:46.29 OluapPlayer 6
• 20:46.50 Wormy Ooh ah say
• 20:46.56 Monet The hivemind is growing.
• 20:47.17 OluapPlayer Ze hivemind expands
• 20:47.27 OluapPlayer Soon we shall devour the galaxy
• 20:47.30 OluapPlayer Tyranids b jelly
• 20:47.39 OluapPlayer brb
• 20:47.46 Asdruabel Oh
• 20:47.56 Asdruabel Wormy is too the part of the hivemind
• 20:47.56 Asdruabel Wait
• 20:48.04 Asdruabel What chaos gods are Wormy and Jo
• 20:48.13 Cyrannian As far as I'm concerned it is Me, Xho and Oluap. And obviously in my case, Dino. :>
• 20:48.25 Cyrannian ~dinoman82
• 20:48.25 infobot I heard that Dinoman82 is Um2k9's alter-ego.
• 20:49.28 Cyrannian And also Wormy, I think.
• 20:49.40 Asdruabel Actually, I am the part of the hivemind too
• 20:49.53 TehnoIsBack >implying i'm not allowed to be in the hive mind
• 20:50.00 TehnoIsBack oh fine then! :/
• 20:50.16 Cyrannian That is my Hivemind, keep your ever expanding one!
• 20:50.30 Wormy I don't get how that works
• 20:50.40 Wormy Maybe Cyrannian
• 20:50.59 Wormy Is a mutant in the Hivemind like a talking mole!
• 20:51.12 Wormy growing off it
• 20:51.20 TehnoIsBack MOVE OVER
• 20:51.28 Wormy This HIVEMIND is getting cancerous
• 20:51.47 Cyrannian A hivemind with Wormy is useful, because I can delve deep into his brain, picking out information that is useful for the Illuminati. While at the same thing, blocking information from him. *evil cackle*
• 20:52.03 TehnoIsBack >implying hivemind with me is not useful :<
• 20:53.54 Cyrannian Or do you?
• 20:54.14 Asdruabel A hivemind with all of you is highly useful, because I can corrupt you and make all of you perverts.
• 20:54.27 Cyrannian ^Thats why I made my own.
• 20:55.06 Cyrannian Actually, you are dead before you can feel any.
• 20:55.21 TehnoIsBack i just realised I spelt Techno wrong...
• 20:56.57 Xho If we're all connected...
• 20:56.58 Xho >:)
• 20:57.18 Asdruabel I am Chaos God, you cannot kill me.
• 20:57.33 Xho And i'm Kamik Shi so fuk u
• 20:57.58 Technobliterator ad i'm Josephine Paulonis so fuk u 2
• 20:59.01 Xho Yeah the wiki is mega fucked up for me

Anzaghar needs a leesh

• [23:31] <Hachiman> My dad is watching Grimbosaur....uhh, I mean, Predator
• [23:31] <Wormy> LOL
• [23:31] <Wormy> Is it TV now?
• [23:31] <Hachiman> Nah DVD
• [23:32] <Wormy> Damn, I've been wanting to see it again lately
• [23:32] <Hachiman> Why so?
• [23:33] <Wormy> Exactly
• [23:33] <Hachiman> I don't understand
• [23:34] <Wormy> Your welcome
• [23:35] <Hachiman> lol
• [23:35] <Wormy> WTF
• [23:35] <Wormy> I just went on Youtube
• [23:35] <Wormy> The recommended video is:
• [23:35] <Wormy> I don't understand
• [23:36] <Hachiman> ...
• [23:36] <Wormy> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyezr3F8QDs&feature=feedlik
• [23:36] <Wormy> I'll prove it
• [23:40] <Wormy> Proof is in the pudding http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:I_don%27t_understand.png
• [23:41] <Wormy> What is this witchcraft?
• [23:43] <Hachiman> It is Angazhar's doing!
• [23:43] <Wormy> Oh noez. Xho control your demon.

The Day The IRC Stood Split

-Martinp23:$$*- [Global Notice] Hi folks. Over the next 30 mins or so I'll be doing some network upgrades. This will be in two stages. First, there will be a huge netsplit, followed by smaller netsplits. About 2700 users will lose connections as a result. I'll send messages directly to users on servers which will be restarted in a moment (zelazny, kornbluth). Thanks for your patience and have a great sunday.

• [13:24] == Irskaad [Irskaad@a95-93-9-120.cpe.netcabo.pt] has quit [*.net *.split]
• [13:24] == Agulhaseldeeneed [18d7c9b2@gateway/web/qwebirc/irc.wikia.com/ip.24.215.201.178] has quit [*.net *.split]
• [13:24] == morgoth1145 [~morgoth@wikia/morgoth1145] has quit [*.net *.split]
• [13:24] == morgothBotPy [~morgothBo@unaffiliated/morgoth1145/bot/morgothbotpy] has quit [*.net *.split]
• [13:24] == infobot [~infobot@rikers.org] has quit [*.net *.split]
• [13:25] <Technobliterator> When they said there would be a net split
• [13:25] <Technobliterator> They weren' joking
• [13:25] <Wormy> lol
• [13:26] <Wormy> The SCOURGE is cometh
• [13:27] == morgoth1145 [~morgoth@wikia/morgoth1145] has joined #sporewiki
• [13:27] == morgothBotPy [~morgothBo@unaffiliated/morgoth1145/bot/morgothbotpy] has joined #sporewiki
• [13:27] == mode/#sporewiki [+ov morgoth1145 morgothBotPy] by rowling.freenode.net
• [13:28] == infobot [~infobot@rikers.org] has joined #sporewiki
• [13:28] == mode/#sporewiki [+v infobot] by rowling.freenode.net
• [13:28] == Seldeen [18d7c9b2@gateway/web/qwebirc/irc.wikia.com/ip.24.215.201.178] has joined #sporewiki
• [13:28] == Irskaad [Irskaad@a95-93-9-120.cpe.netcabo.pt] has joined #sporewiki
• [13:28] <Irskaad> Yey
• [13:28] <Irskaad> ~boo
• [13:29] <Wormy> [13:18] -Martinp23:$$*- [Global Notice] Hi folks. Over the next 30 mins or so I'll be doing some network upgrades. This will be in two stages. First, there will be a huge netsplit, followed by smaller netsplits. About 2700 users will lose connections as a result. I'll send messages directly to users on servers which will be restarted in a moment (zelazny, kornbluth). Thanks for your patience and have a great sunday.
• [13:29] <Irskaad> ^

The Funny bit

• [13:29] <Wormy> you lot got scourged
• [13:29] <Irskaad> Me and Seldeen were the only ones not affected
• [13:29] <@OluapPlayer> no u
• [13:29] <Technobliterator> ...
• [13:29] <Technobliterator> you were the only ones who *were* affected
• [13:29] <Irskaad> We were not :P
• [13:29] <Irskaad> Everyone net splitted except us
• [13:30] <Wormy> [13:24] == Irskaad [Irskaad@a95-93-9-120.cpe.netcabo.pt] has quit [*.net *.split]
• [13:30] <Technobliterator> wtf
• [13:30] <Technobliterator> ^ i saw that too
• [13:30] <Wormy> I understand
• [13:30] <Technobliterator> and needles
• [13:30] <Technobliterator> and morgoth
• [13:30] <Irskaad> WTF
• [13:30] <Technobliterator> infobot too
• [13:30] <Wormy> Freenoide got split into several chatrooms for a secnd probably local to certain servers
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:24] * morgoth1145 has quit IRC (*.net *.split)
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25] * morgothBotPy has quit IRC (*.net *.split)
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25] * infobot has quit IRC (*.net *.split)
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25] * Agulhaseldeeneed is now known as SELDEEN
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25] SELDEEN WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25] * SELDEEN is now known as Seldeen
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25] Seldeen That's better. Whenever that happens...
• [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25] Seldeen What happened, Irsk?
• [13:30] <Wormy> .13:25] <Technobliterator> When they said there would be a net split
• [13:30] <Irskaad> My view of things
• [13:31] <Wormy> 13:25] <Technobliterator> They weren' joking
• [13:31] <+infobot> for heaven's sake, irskaad, don't do that!
• [13:31] <Wormy> [13:25] <Wormy> lol
• [13:31] <Wormy> [13:26] <Wormy> The SCOURGE is cometh
• [13:32] * Wormy Is adding this to IRC moments.

-Martinp23:$$*- [Global Notice] Hi - today's updates are now complete. Join us next week for the next game of upgrades roulette (see blog for schedule if you want to ruin the surprise). Have a great day! :)

Heavy Weapons Guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzPmNhsJpbg Spam filter blocked ASCII art on my own user page. :P

Wrong moment

• [18:35] <Wormy> lol read comments http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/using-first-person-shooting-games-to-improve-vision/article2343057/comments/
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• [18:37] <Hachi_> "I don't let myself play violent video games. I'm far too stupid to understand the difference between what goes on my XBox and what happens in real life. I just can't tell the difference some days. Like when I go to work on my Xbox, and it's not really my Xbox, it's my life. And then when I play a racing game on my xbox, crash the car, and call 911 to come to my house because I was in a car accident."
• [18:38] <Xho> I come in and I hear that

Listen to the lyrics

• [00:40] <Wormy> Irskaad: What do you think the lyrics mean in this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQPsQTyENRw
• [00:40] <Irskaad> Dunno
• [00:41] <Wormy> You do ;)
• [00:42] <Irskaad> Actually no...
• [00:42] <Irskaad> I really don't get them
• [00:42] <Wormy> Read the comments http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858496883/
• [00:44] <Irskaad> Kay
• [00:44] <Atamolos> :P
• [00:45] <Wormy> The title "Jerk it out" should be hinting enough
• [00:53] <Wormy> Irskaad: Here is a Techno/Electronic song for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmzxxN0m3k&feature=fvsr
• [00:53] <Wormy> Does it satisfy your needs for Techno?
• [00:54] <Irskaad> ^^
• [00:54] <Wormy> :P

Moles

[19:48] <Catface> Wormy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfwzb2VoD_c
[19:48] <Ghel> I don't think it's that easy. Maybe she should buy a time machine, use that to get cash, and give that cash to her few-minutes-younger self so that she can buy a time machine (and have some left over, and a time machine). That would solve both of the problems, if it worked.
[19:50] <@OluapWorker> Getting a time machine isn't exactly easy though
[19:51] <Wormy> cool song
[19:51] <Xho> [1]
[19:51] <Ghel> The idea is, she buys it off herself, using money she gives herself... it's a messed-up plan, all right?
[19:52] <Wormy> Lol I say what a Ghel magnificient mole you have there
[19:52] <Wormy> WHAT
[19:52] <Wormy> How did Ghel get in there shit
[19:53] <Ghel> I was wondering why you beeped me.
[19:53] <Ghel> Maybe you pressed the tab key? That sticks in the name of the last person who said anything.
[19:53] <@OluapWorker> Ghel is a magnificent mole now
[19:53] <Ghel> No, the magnificent mole is me.
[19:54] <Wormy> I think I probably did I s=didn't mean that
[19:54] <Ghel> Uhh.
[19:54] <Ghel> I think you're not checking what you're typing.
[19:54] <Wormy> no
[19:54] <Wormy> I'm not
[19:54] <Ghel> Whereas I'm just not checking what I'm thinking; it's completely different.
[19:54] <Wormy> Did you see that Catface?
[19:55] <Wormy> I say
[19:55] <Catface> Wormy: Yes, mine id I touch it?
[19:55] <Catface> *mind
[19:55] <Catface> and if
[19:55] <Wormy> Go brush your teeth!
[19:55] <@OluapWorker> So Ghel is a magnificent mole and Catface wants to touch him
[19:55] <@OluapWorker> shit's fukd
[19:55] <@OluapWorker> I blame Xho
[19:56] <Xho> u blame urself cus hivemind
[19:56] <@OluapWorker> fuuuu
[19:56] <Ghel> Thanks a lot, Oluap. You're responsible for me being a magnificent mole and Catface wanting to touch me.
[19:57] <Xho> Yo what
[19:57] <@OluapWorker> Just doing my job
[19:57] <Catface> It should be an honor that you are such a magnificent mole, Ghel.
[19:57] <Ghel> I suppose if I'm to be any mole, I'd rather be a magnificent one.
[19:57] <@OluapWorker> Not all moles are magnificent

Wormy's sin

In the Last week or so, Wormy's IE started crashing and freezing not long after Wormy defended IE saying it wasn't that bad. Luckily Wormy has Google Chrome and Safari as well, and has seen the true light.

• [11:09] == Wyrmy [d92bf40d@gateway/web/freenode/ip.217.43.244.13] has joined #sporewiki
• [11:09] <Monet> Develani - Perhaps, but right now I communicate with dozens of voices, with a nintellect beyond the ability of a single brain. I might be able to find something.
• [11:09] <Technobliterator> Dakster - "Fluffy rabbit swag"?! I'M JEALOUS OF THE MERE FACT YOU HAVE LIFE!!
• [11:09] <Wyrmy> I must get into the habit of using google chrome
• [11:09] <@OluapWorker> Yes you must
• [11:09] <Hachi_> Hachi - There we go! You're jealous because you're actually dead!
• [11:10] <Wyrmy> You may have the pleasure of kicking Wormy
• [11:10] <Technobliterator> google chrome is easy:L
• [11:10] <@OluapWorker> Baptarion - You don't look like an undead to me. Is this some kind of joke?
• [11:10] <Technobliterator> Dakster - Rubbing it in my face...FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!
• [11:10] == Wormy was kicked from #sporewiki by OluapWorker [wibble]
• [11:11] * OluapWorker HAS PLESUR
• [11:11] <Technobliterator> lol...
• [11:11] <Wyrmy> Lol
• [11:11] <Hachi_> Hachi - I am rubbing it in your face, but I'm not fucking asshole just yet.
• [11:11] <Wyrmy> Well, it punishes Wormy for using such a sinful web browser

Wormy can't insult for shit

• [00:07] <Hachi_> Xho, do you know Indian?
• [00:08] <Xho> Indian isn't a language
• [00:08] <Hachi_> ...
• [00:08] <Xho> There's many Indian languages
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• [00:08] <Hachi_> Wow I feel like an idiot
• [00:08] <WolfSpirit42_> Eh
• [00:08] <Wormy> Yep
• [00:08] <Wormy> Sorry but that was a little durp hurp
• [00:09] <Wormy> *derp herp
• [00:09] <Wormy> Now I'm deping
• [00:09] <Wormy> gah
• [00:09] <AdmiralPanda> Just stop while you still have some dignity

That's life

• [13:48] <Imperios> So there will be a Prothean dick in ME3?
• [13:48] <@OluapWorker> Yes
• [13:48] <@OluapWorker> And he's a DLC
• [13:48] <Xho> Nu gon do ebul shit
• [13:48] <Monet> Nu can't electrocute him can he?
• [13:48] <@OluapWorker> One you have to pay for
• [13:48] <Imperios> http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Arkarixus#Quotes BTW Quoted
• [13:48] <Imperios> Dum
• [13:48] <Imperios> DLC = Heresy
• [13:48] <Wormy> Why is everyone talking about dicks
• [13:49] <Xho> Wormy: Such is life
• [13:49] <Imperios> Wormy: Because everyone is a dick
• [13:49] <Monet> Uriel could e an exception.
• [13:49] <Wormy> Especially in the SporeWikiverse
• [13:50] <Wormy> So Uriel is a woman?

Wormy ruins a nice gesture

After a discussion of cheese analogue.

• [11:00] * AdmiralPanda gives GD12 a cookie
• [11:00] * GreatDestroyer12 gives Panda bamboo pizza
• [11:00] * Wormy Shows GD12 it is only a cookie analogue
• [11:00] <AdmiralPanda> I only had chocolate-chip bamboo flour, but I hope that's ok. And bamboo pizza is just plain wierd
• [11:01] <AdmiralPanda> HEY! Bamboo sugar may not be cane sugar, but it's not an analogue
• [11:01] * GreatDestroyer12 throws the cookie up after seeing that is made of synthetic rubber
• [11:01] <Wormy> and plastercine
• [11:01] <AdmiralPanda> Hmm... that crafty worm must have pulled a switcher.
• [11:01] <AdmiralPanda> switcheroo*
• [11:02] <GreatDestroyer12> ignorance was bliss
• [11:02] <GreatDestroyer12> it tasted so real
• [11:04] <Wormy> I have exposed the AdmiralPanda cookie brand.
• [11:04] * Wormy whistleblows it to the rest of the world
• [11:04] <AdmiralPanda> Like I said, bamboo sugar is still naturally occurring sucrose!
• [11:04] * AdmiralPanda publishes Wormy's collection of mature animated content to the interweb *
• [11:04] <Wormy> Bramboo sugar, plasticine amd rubber
• [11:05] <Zmr56> Bleh
• [11:05] <AdmiralPanda> You're not the only one who can play the slander game, worm
• [11:05] * GreatDestroyer12 reveals the bamboo was really uranium fuel rods
• [11:05] <AdmiralPanda> Now how the fuck does that work? *hires 100 scientists to prove that the sucrose is actually sucrose*
• [11:06] <Wormy> It is true that plasticine is non-toxic
• [11:06] * GreatDestroyer12 funds and other study that disproves it
• [11:07] <GreatDestroyer12> what have we been eating?
• [11:07] <AdmiralPanda> *My study has a p-value of 0.035, yours has a value of 0.68, and therefore mine is accepted while yours is refuted*
• [11:07] <AdmiralPanda> Wormy: Yeah, most of it is.
• [11:07] <Zmr56> what about the new susbstance bramboo
• [11:08] * GreatDestroyer12 uses good public relations to refute AdmiralPanda's otherwise true claim
• [11:08] <GreatDestroyer12> advertising bru
• [11:08] * Wormy Calls for independant verification.
• [11:08] * AdmiralPanda gets you laughed out of the scientific community, reducing your public standing. He then uses his cute appearance to win over the public. Wormy's independent verification supports my claims*
• [11:09] * Wormy Gets AdmiralPanda done for fraud anyway because he used plasticine and rubber.
• [11:09] * GreatDestroyer12 turns into a recluse and gets plastic surgery that is botched and leaves me horribley deformed
• [11:09] * AdmiralPanda doesn't even have a brand called AdmiralPanda Cookies, and so gets Wormy locked up for libel *
• [11:10] * Zmr56 nukes the secret factory
• [11:10] * Wormy Wormy escapes in a plant pot and buries himself in the soil outside like a good worm should.
• [11:10] * GreatDestroyer12 frames AdmiralPanda for murder by bamboo and lands him i nthe same cell as wormy
• [11:10] * AdmiralPanda proves his innocence by proving that the bamboo does not come from his homeland, and gets out free *
• [11:11] <Zmr56> *Ends up killing the panda population by the nukes
• [11:11] * GreatDestroyer12 recognizes that subtely no longer works and bribes the judges to lock AdmiralPanda up in a zoo on the Great Wall
• [11:11] * Wormy Points out that Panda's species still evolved with bamboo.
• [11:12] <Zmr56> ohohoho
• [11:12] * AdmiralPanda is rescued by a crack team of ninja pandas, and then leaves for his spaceship. He removes Wormy from his christmas list *
• [11:12] * GreatDestroyer12 turns to my group of illegal chinese poachers and tracks AdmiralPandas ship to Panda Prime
• [11:13] * AdmiralPanda goes 'Dafuq'? And respectfully asks GD12 to stop making crap up, as this is getting boring. *
• [11:15] <Ghelae> That whole thing looked kind of pointless, to be honest. I mean, cookie analogue is perfectly edible. I don't see why it was necessary to bring nuclear weapons into the whole affair.

Typos lol

• [18:28] <Zmr56> Feedback is important on your first fuc
• [18:28] <Zmr56> I mean Fic
• [18:28] <Hachi> lol
• [18:28] <AdmiralPanda> I'm more than willing to let him create anything he likes, it's just if I don't like it I won't include it in my fic.
• [18:28] <Wormy_> My policy is that if people don't like my fiction, they don't have to read it, or even consider it canon. Like the One God fic "Its canon if you want it to be". I normally apply that to new fiction.
• [18:28] <Hachi> "Feedback is important on your first fuc" Just lol
• [18:29] <Zmr56> Dum I close to the U turns Fic into Fuc

The Motley crew

• [19:44] <@Cyrannian> http:// images4.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/d/d7/ReturnPresident.png - Apollo - gee thnxs guise
• [19:44] <@Technobliterator> oh yeah
• [19:44] <@Technobliterator> true
• [19:44] <@Technobliterator> hah
• [19:45] <Hachi_> Koluap's so angry his foot went through the floor
• [19:45] <@OluapPlayer> Koluap - Wait, who are you again?
• [19:45] <Monet> Koluap - Hey mr. president, where's the toilet?
• [19:45] <@Cyrannian> ohgod
• [19:45] <@OluapPlayer> hur
• [19:45] <Wormy> What a bunch of lookers
• [19:45] <Wormy> Motley crew
• [19:45] <@Cyrannian> Voro - I'm the sexiest
• [19:46] <Tybusen> And that's when they learned Apollo was pregnant with Khuneaten's son
• [19:46] * Cyrannian implodes
• [19:46] <Hachi_> ohgodlawl
• [19:46] <@OluapPlayer> The hell
• [19:47] <Monet> Apollo - I'm pregnent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynoT189JwJE
• [19:47] <Wormy> This theme is suitable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxayYlq5qX8
• [19:49] <@Cyrannian> Apollo - I'm pregnant. *Eastenders theme* - I can see it happening.
• [19:49] <@Xho> Oh god what
• [19:50] <@Technobliterator> eastenders theme
• [19:50] <@Technobliterator> propa dum
• [19:50] <@OluapPlayer> Everyone - how about no
• [19:50] <Hachi_> Apollo - I'm pregnant.
• [19:50] <Hachi_> Dhazhrak - >:3
• [19:50] <@OluapPlayer> NO
• [19:50] <@Cyrannian> And then Koluap punches Apollo in the stomach repeatedly
• [19:50] <Tybusen> Apollo - I'm pregnant | Koluap - Dafuq?
• [19:51] <Tybusen> I just ruined Dark Times. You're welcome
• [19:52] <@Xho> Dhazhrak - Y U HURT MY CHILD ALTHOUGH I DON'T PRODUCE CHILDREN
• [19:52] <@Cyrannian> Dhazhrak is the father?
• [19:52] <@Cyrannian> There goes my brain stems.
• [19:52] <Hachi_> 9 months later
• [19:52] <Hachi_> Crispy - Da-da
• [19:52] <@OluapPlayer> Hm
• [19:52] <@OluapPlayer> Nope
• [19:52] * OluapPlayer suicides
• [19:53] <Wormy> Apollo must have a protective man-pouch like those weird toads
• [19:53] <Tybusen> Apollo's been having an affair with Ramashe who's really crossdressing Dhazhrak
• [19:53] <Hachi_> "Man-pouch"
• [19:53] <Hachi_> ngh
• [19:53] <@Cyrannian> MINDFUCK
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• [19:54] <Wormy> ded
• [19:54] <Hachi_> No wonder Apollo beats Gianne and her kids
• [19:55] <Hachi_> He's an abusive father/husband who has had an affair with a crossdressing Xhodocto disguised as a bird and is now pregnant with a roasted Zazane
• [19:55] <@OluapPlayer> I blame MTV
• [19:56] <@Cyrannian> Koluap is the abusive grandmother.
• [19:56] <Hachi_> On Gianne's side
• [19:56] <Tybusen> Antediluvian is the annoying in-law
• [19:57] <@Xho> Angazhar is the great uncle

Awkward moment

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• [13:30] <Wormy_STO> "Currently, there are 2,471,700 germs living on your cell phone" That's the equivalent of 494 toilet seats!
• [13:30] <Wormy_STO> Thats for me
• [13:31] <@OluapPlayer> I join to see Wormy talking about toilet seats
• [13:31] <@OluapPlayer> The night's starting well

Long words

• 19:49.17 EmperorsWrath But the Divinarium does not have a major shtick; Tyraz is the military leader, Uriel is... just the main one. The Divinarium however lacks a major shtick
• 19:49.28 Xho What's a shtick
• 19:49.29 EmperorsWrath Wait I said that twice
• 19:49.39 Wormy lol
• 19:49.41 EmperorsWrath I mean
• 19:49.44 EmperorsWrath A unique feature
• 19:49.47 Cyrannian An attention-getting or theatrical routine, gimmick, or talent
• 19:50.09 Cyrannian And anyone who says I got that from my online dictionary is smelly
• 19:50.33 EmperorsWrath Wait
• 19:50.41 Wormy I use online dictionaries to find alternative words to make it look less posh
• 19:50.46 Catface Okay wtf
• 19:50.48 Wormy *more posh3
• 19:50.50 EmperorsWrath I know an English word that a British person doesn't?
• 19:51.31 Wormy To be fair a ot of people my age can't read/write properly leaving school
• 19:52.01 Cyrannian Well, people who speak English don't exactly use the word "shtick" on a daily/monthly/yearly basis.
• 19:52.12 Xho Never heard it before
• 19:52.26 Catface Only its Yiddish.
• 19:52.27 Wormy I heard it on Family guy once
• 19:52.45 Xho Then again I guess you never hear Floccinaucinihilipilification
• 19:52.51 EmperorsWrath Okay
• 19:53.00 Wormy I have
• 19:53.13 Xho In everyday language?
• 19:53.22 Wormy No
• 19:53.29 Wormy On Wikipedia
• 19:53.44 Cyrannian A day rarely goes by when I don't say floccinaucinihilipilification.
• 19:53.46 Wormy dum I get the point
• 19:54.19 Catface Xho: CAn't say I have.
• 19:54.40 Wormy I love the convrsations here
• 19:54.49 Cyrannian Perhaps splitting your leaders is the problem into different niches is the problem.
• 19:55.02 Cyrannian sense made none
• 19:55.10 Xho I don't know very many people who can spell or pronounce floccinaucinihilipilification

Messy business

• [14:46] <@OluapPlayer> Catface: Yes
• [14:46] <Needles_10> Beta?
• [14:46] <BetaDude40> Yeah?
• [14:46] <Catface> OluapPlayer: Okay...my love.
• [14:47] <Needles_10> Woah, woah, woah...
• [14:47] * DrodoEmpire takes a few steps away from Catface
• [14:47] <DrodoEmpire> whoa, buddy
• [14:47] <BetaDude40> Hey, you didn'r put a ring on it yet!
• [14:47] <Needles_10> Is there a sort of online man/man relationship now?
• [14:47] <Catface> lawl no
• [14:47] <BetaDude40> Don't get in there without marriage
• [14:47] <Wormy> Yes of course why wouldn't there be Needles_10
• [14:47] <BetaDude40> Breaks the rulez
• [14:48] <BetaDude40> Are you a homophope needles!?!?
• [14:48] <Needles_10> I'm not homophobic or anything. I'm in favor of same-sex marriage, although I am personally straight. But online...!?
• [14:48] <Needles_10> Jeez...
• [14:48] <DrodoEmpire> Online dating, man
• [14:48] <BetaDude40> Because that's just fine and dandy
• [14:48] <Needles_10> A bit too close for comfort feeling
• [14:48] <Hachi__> Online relationships are good if you can actually keep to it
• [14:48] <DrodoEmpire> yeah,
• [14:48] <Hachi__> But I'm just meh
• [14:48] <BetaDude40> Like I care if people date with same/different sexes
• [14:49] <DrodoEmpire> same,
• [14:49] <DrodoEmpire> its irrelivent to me, seeing as if its who you love, go ahead.
• [14:49] <BetaDude40> My species don't have sexual intercourse
• [14:49] <DrodoEmpire> Then do the perform mitosis?
• [14:50] <BetaDude40> They take the sperm and egg cells from the two genders and put them in a special life support tank
• [14:50] * Catface sobs softly
• [14:50] <DrodoEmpire> then...
• [14:50] <BetaDude40> Sexual intercourse is too messy
• [14:50] <DrodoEmpire> how did they even get past being an animal?
• [14:50] <Hachi__> I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want
• [14:50] <DrodoEmpire> lool
• [14:52] <BetaDude40> Actually animals hate it when they do it. Only humans and dolphins actually enjoy it
• [14:52] <Catface> Things are too odd now.
• [14:52] * Catface jumps out the window. == Catface [63778bd8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.99.119.139.216] has left #sporewiki []
• [14:52] <Hachi__> I know cats don't like it ohgod
• [14:52] <R17> Sometimes I wonder if dolphins and humans are linked in a way.
• [14:53] <R17> and ponie- *gets shot*

Last one standing... Alone :(

• [01:34] <Xho> I'm just trying to imagine Lagosi cavalry forces
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• [02:25] <Wormy> And everyone died, the end

Copyrighting π

• [04:00] <Wormy> someone copyrighted the digits of pi played in music. that means he can lawsuit everyone since every melody that could ever exist is in pi youtube
• [04:01] <Wormy> Monet: Another case of copyright powers blown out of proporyion and used illogically
• [04:01] <Monet> Idiot.
• [04:03] <OfficerWorking> Propa dum.
• [04:04] <Monet> Mr. Spock frowns on such behaviour.
• [04:04] <EmperorsWrath> Wormy: Dat troll
• [04:07] <OfficerWorking> ~pi
• [04:07] <+infobot> [pi] WIKIA SPAM FILTER BLOCKS PI
• [04:07] <OfficerWorking> ~sue infobot
• [04:07] * infobot sends an entire multinational firm after infobot, determined to reduce infobot to absolute nothingness
• [04:09] <Wormy> lol
• [04:11] <EmperorsWrath> Da kunnin' plan
• [04:12] <OfficerWorking> ~copyright lok
• [04:12] <OfficerWorking> Shit, misspelled "lol".
• [04:12] <Wormy> the people who let him copyright it must have been dumb or something
• [04:14] <EmperorsWrath> Wormy: Nu copyrights "Nu"
• [04:15] <OfficerWorking> ~copyright clouds.
• [04:15] <Wormy> Did he now?
• [04:15] <Wormy> ~copyright pregnancy
• [04:16] <Wormy> There can only be one!
• [04:16] <OfficerWorking> ~copyright sight.
• [04:16] <OfficerWorking> Return eyeballs plz.
• [04:16] <Wormy> Copyright breathing
• [04:16] <Wormy> Copyrighrt planetary formation
• [04:17] <Wormy> ~sue nature
• [04:17] * infobot acting on orders from an unspecified client, drags nature into court suing for $200 million
• [04:17] <Monet> Copyright.... stellar fusion.
• [04:17] <OfficerWorking> Copyright copyright.
• [04:19] <OfficerWorking> Hell yeah, now only I can copyrighy >:D
• [04:20] <Wormy> damn
• [04:20] <OfficerWorking> Copyright grass, water, living, privacy, television, cable, meat, cows, horses, cars, traffic lights, government.
• [04:21] <Wormy> Copyright everything fun, warm, giggly, jolly bubbly and happy
• [04:21] <OfficerWorking> ~sue Wormy
• [04:21] * infobot sends an entire multinational firm after Wormy, determined to reduce Wormy to absolute nothingness
• [04:21] <Monet> I only jsut managed to copyright vibration.
• [04:22] <Monet> You all owe me!
• [04:22] <Wormy> damb
• [04:22] <Wormy> double damn
• [04:22] <OfficerWorking> Copyright family.
• [04:23] * Monet laughs with a touch of insanity
• [04:23] == OluapPlayer [bd0e8ac1@gateway/web/freenode/ip.189.14.138.193] has joined #sporewiki
• [04:23] == mode/#sporewiki [+o OluapPlayer] by ChanServ
• [04:24] <OfficerWorking> We are having a copyright fight :D
• [04:24] <Wormy> I'm afraid I copyrighted joining irc
• [04:24] <OfficerWorking> Copyright names.
• [04:24] <@OluapPlayer> u so random
• [04:24] <OfficerWorking> ~sue Technobliterator
• [04:24] * infobot sends an entire multinational firm after Technobliterator, determined to reduce Technobliterator to absolute nothingness
• [04:24] <OfficerWorking> ~sue Oluap.
• [04:24] * infobot sends an entire multinational firm after Oluap., determined to reduce Oluap. to absolute nothingness
• [04:24] <Wormy> So owe me so I can pay OfficerWorking and Monet their lawsuits
• [04:24] * Technobliterator copyrights typing
• [04:24] <@Technobliterator> you all owe me
• [04:25] <Wormy> Unfortunately you still owe OfficerWorking
• [04:25] <Wormy> He copyrighred copyright
• [04:25] <Monet> I copyrighted vibration so everything in the universe owes me *laughs hysterically*
• [04:25] <OfficerWorking> Except absolute zero.
• [04:25] <OfficerWorking> I think.
• [04:26] <OfficerWorking> Agh fuck.
• [04:26] <Wormy> Meh, I copyrighted the conservation of energy
• [04:26] * OfficerWorking pays techno.
• [04:26] <OfficerWorking> Agh fuck.
• [04:26] * OfficerWorking pays techno
• [04:26] <OfficerWorking> Agh fuck.
• [04:26] * OfficerWorking pays techno.
• [04:26] <OfficerWorking> The cycle never ends! ;-;
• [04:29] <Monet> Then stop typing.
• [04:29] <OfficerWorking> You have to pay techno no- Agh fuck.
• [04:31] <OfficerWorking> File lawsuit against "Copyright: Typing".
• [04:31] <Monet> I copyrighted swearing >:)
• [04:31] * Jepardi copyrights living
• [04:32] <OfficerWorking> I ALREADY DID THAT!!!!
• [04:32] <Monet> You owe me 15 million internet dollars.
• [04:32] <OfficerWorking> fssmafpomsf;
• [04:32] <OfficerWorking> ~sue jepardi
• [04:32] * infobot acting on orders from an unspecified client, drags jepardi into court suing for $200 million
• [04:32] <OfficerWorking> ~sue jepardi
• [04:32] <OfficerWorking> ~sue jepardi
• [04:32] <@OluapPlayer> Don't spam
• [04:32] <OfficerWorking> Sorry.
• [04:36] * Jepardi copyrights suing
• [04:37] * Xho sues copyright suing

Poopie puppy

• [00:22] <@OluapWorker> It's a section about Tigarlu eating the entire CyraEmp territory
• [00:23] <@Cyrannian> And pooping out the new Republic
• [00:23] <@OluapWorker> Apollo and Ramashe will command Tigarlu's poopies
• [00:24] <@Cyrannian> This is quickly becoming disturbing
• [00:25] <Hachi_> Not only shall they command them, but love them
• [00:25] <@OluapWorker> dis is all ur fault
• [00:25] <Hachi_> And show them ever-lasting affection
• [00:25] <@Cyrannian> Until they get cholera.
• [00:45] <dino_> who poopies? Interssting, are they eatable?
• [00:45] <@OluapWorker> Oh god dino no
• [00:46] <@OluapWorker> It was a play on the word "poop"
• [00:46] <dino_> oh ok :D
• [00:46] <dino_> :P

Thou shalt belittle my creations

• [17:24] <Zmr56> Oluap: Do I have permission to use Fire Drakes in my fictions history? They were invaded by some dragons at one point so I can only think Fire Drakes would be the most fitting for the plot.
• [17:25] <@OluapPlayer> As long as you belittle them, go ahead

Working from beyond the grave

• [19:27] <Wormy_away> Monet, you seem to make a killing these days. I think you've outgrown DA http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27991977
• [19:29] <Monet> Maybe, maybe not
• [19:29] <Monet> Still it is sad that these days the best artworks sell for such values long after the creator is dead.
• [19:30] <Wormy_away> yeah
• [19:31] <Hachiman> In that case you should kill yourself and more people will buy commissions
• [19:32] <Hachiman> That'll make a living... Wait
• [19:32] <Monet> Yeah working on commissions is hard to do when I'm dead.
• [19:33] <Wormy_away> fake your death, create a synthetic human that would do your bidding and owns your art. kaching
• [19:34] <Monet> And explaining new artwork?
• [19:34] <Wormy_away> create more synthetic humans
• [19:35] <Wormy_away> do art under their name
• [19:35] <Wormy_away> have them killed off
• [19:35] <Xho> You thought this through
• [19:36] <Xho> wat r u planin
• [19:36] <Wormy_away> I have many plans with synthetic people
• [19:36] <Monet> I'm busted, I am a synthetic created by Claude Monet
• [19:36] <Wormy_away> I would never have guessed, But now I know the truth!
• [19:38] <Monet> You won't be able to convince anyone

Meta-crisis

• [21:11] <Ghel> I'll add Mala Aurorum as soon as I can figure out where it's supposed to be. I made an ancient temple so secret even I'm not sure where it is.
• [21:11] <@OluapPlayer> That's pretty secret
• [21:12] <Wormy> a meta-secret so secret no-one knows
• [21:13] <Ghel> A meta-secret is a secret that's so secret, nobody knows it's a secret. So it's not a meta-secret.
• [21:13] <Ghel> Unless it's so secret that I don't know it's a meta-secret.
• [21:14] <Wormy> This is entering set theory
• [21:14] <Ghel> Yeah, let's not go there. :P
• [21:14] <Wormy> we might not get out...
• [21:16] <Ghel> I've added Mala Aurorum, so the set theory crisis is over.

Increasingly posh

• Shu'Rimrodir: Nope
• wormulonempire: wot
• Shu'Rimrodir: wot
• wormulonempire: uwotm8
• Shu'Rimrodir: uwotmeight
• wormulonempire: You what mate?
• Shu'Rimrodir: You what, friend?
• wormulonempire: Dear friend, what did you say, I must enquire?.
• Shu'Rimrodir: Dear sir Wormulon, what did you just say to me, I must acquire this information immediatly!
• wormulonempire: Dear, Mr. Shu'Rimrodir, I expressed the words; "wot", to which you enquired "wot", to which I replied "uwotm8", to which you quizzed "uwotmeight", to which I said "You what mate", to which you asked "You what, friend?", to which I replied "Dear friend, what did you say, I must enquire?."
• Shu'Rimrodir: Dear british posh person, go frak yourself XDDD

Cleverbot

I sometimes try to make Cleverbot "learn" philosophy. This is not done with the rigour of the Turing Test, it is for my own amusement. However, the bot did seem to "learn", some of the logic I was confronting it with, in particular the seeming paradox of fallibalism. Cleverbot seemed to be rather evasive all the way through, and ended up using my own logic against me to try and prove that I do not exist or cannot know I exist (I tried to prove to it it did exist hence its already learned sarcasm, though it likely does not as a thinking entity). Initially I was "Erm...", but I slipped out using critical rationalism and falsification to deny its ability to prove I do not exist. However, we had concluded all along (in the middle and the bottom) that we cannot prove our existence through the mode of conversation, for experience is a false authority.

I did feel as though the AI's learning algorithm might have been at work, in order to stay as evasive as it could. Whether or not it was my doing or the sum of all conversations is another matter. Its personality seems like it has built a foundation on sarcasm and was building our debate into it, but this is dangerous waters, for that sounds like it has convinced me of its personhood. But I do not believe it is sophisticated enough for consciousness (not logic and syntax alone, we need scientific explanation) however though AI should be possible. But I am not sure what consciousness is either, and now come away with an uneasy feeling I cannot even prove my own; "I think, therefore I wonder if I am" (memories can be false, you know).

Finally cleverbot has definitely learned to be snarky and sarcastic with humankind. It also produces spelling errors if I get it really muddled.

I start at odd numbers.

Starship taxonomy

I'll blog out of a refined version of this. This isn't about the characteristics of a spacecraft, it's technology or application, but merely the style and architecture. Every user on SporeWiki seems to have their own styles, even if they are in the similar categories.

• Anthromorphic - This is a surprisingly large category. Most human vehicles and buildings are built to accomodate humans; designers are prone to visualise and build things with human (and possibly alien) analogies (suiting human needs), whether intended or not (important note is that the feature must have a visual impact, a hidden command center is irrelevant). For example: the bridge of a starship cockpit (main command center); is the head, Engineering in the heart, the engine; the guts. Architectural style comes next, based on technological, cultural, emotional or perceptive factors. For science fiction, spacecraft are depicted as far less architectural designs than builings or colonies. Styles commonly have elements of modernist architecture, where form follows function (which is more likely for spacecraft due to technical factors). This can encompass techno-industrialism and blur with futurism. Futuristic styles tend to reflect what we think of as futuristic (e.g sleekness, high technology, floating parts, one big molded ship with no bolts or rivets), so are generally more expressionist, but also has many stranger styles where sci-fi pushes the boundaries, alien ships often appear out of the norm (like deconstructivism and googie), or organic-shapes.
  • Techno-industrial - Very mechanical, often bulky and mean looking.
    • United Lanat Empire ships.
    • Vartekian starships
    • Battlefleet Gothic, of the Imperium of Man (Warhammer 40K) - Mechanical, with a grim, gothic overlaying them.
  • Retro-futurism - There are several ages of this; steampunk, dieselpunk, and Atomic age/Cold war era. Retro-futurism in many cases still looks futuristic.
    • Human Republic ships. It's surprising that human ships looks bulky and retro in most science fiction.
  • Modernism, 21st century futurism and maximalism - The majority of sci-fi, 80's and onwards. There is so many subclasses one could concieve, perhaps basing off technology levels. The tier scale may actually be able to classify these designs, low end being 1, 2, 3. High end being like DCP ships.
  • Patternistic and alienmorphic - many "alien" designs. Sci-fi writers tend to depict their spacecraft look like their alien species in some way or another, making them alienmorphic. Alien transportation devices may well look very different to human modes of transport and vehicles.
    • Bioships - Come in a wide group of sub-varieties; aquatic mammalian, reptillian, invertebrate, even plant-like (orwood trees) etc.
    • Organic - Very typical of Babylon 5, some ships look organic, while never specified to be living spacecraft.
    • Voidships - "Spacetime" vessels that appear to "mold" into the universe.
  • General mixture
    • Star Wars ships
    • Expressionist ships - Where a sci-fi writer might try to apply a not necessarily modernistic architecture i.e. religious symbolism, neoclassicalism and gothic feel.

• Non-anthromorphic - There are many exceptions to this rule. Common themes include structuralism, metabolism, brutulism and extreme functionalism.
  • Modular/Cellular - Each functioning pod is vital to an overall structure, and in some cases can work as exclusive units. Think of ganglionic intelligences like bee-hives. Craft might be able to split and join or morph shapes to adapt to their environment.
    • Real-life spacecraft, stations and rockets are generally modular, although this may exclude spaceplanes.
    • Modular UFO's that appear to split.
  • Monolithic - Characterless vessels built purely for functional means, such as efficient shapes. Hivemind races and species which lack imagination might build monolithic designs.
    • Borg, Cyrannian Grox, Quadrantia Grox
  • Extreme functionalism
    • Majority of UFO's - Most UFO's come in simple shapes, though not necessarily monolithic, these include spherical variations, cones, triangles, rectangles, diamonds, cylinders and trains.
    • Silver Ghosts (Xeelee Sequence) - Most of their craft are a network of cables and random devices. There are no need for much comfort, or other biological requirements.
  • Abstract - polymorphic, fractalism, minimal surface, other alien designs.
    • Shapeshifting UFO's - Solid parts that can seemingly move through itself, or other objects, can shape and size, often non-corporeal elements.

Original tech in the SporeWikiverse?

Several technologies in the SporeWikiverse seem unique, although they may borrow concepts from physics or build on previous versions. This is to my knowledge, I might be wrong, inform me if I am. SporeWikiverse fiction can be unique and somewhat original in many other ways too.

• "Quantum"-replicators (Ghelae) - By function, they seem to be unique, differing from normal replicators and universal assemblers. Perhaps the most influential on this list.
• Hyperluminal torpedoes (Ghelae) - I'm unsure of their canon status now. Seemingly impossible, but uses godtech.
• Nonphasic shielding (Ghelae) - The ultimate deflector imo.
• Spacetime nightcloak (Ghelae) - Okay, spacetime shields do exist but again, function/description-wise, it seems unique.
• Krasnikov tubes (me) - Let me set this straight, this has been a speculative concept for a long time, the idea isn't invented by me. Most sci-fi uses wormholes to achieve a similar result, but I use these for the transport of stellar energy between systems, I don't know any other fiction to do the same.
• Matter/Antimatter conversion: Reversing chirality (me) - Well, it's actually based on scientific speculation, but I've not seen it in fiction offsite.
• Ghost phasing (me) - I'm sure similar ideas exist, but the function differs.
• Void bubble-enclosing FSP-disruptor (me) - Original on technicality, although the reality bomb from Doctor Who and Altered stars in the Xeelee Sequence seem similar (unintentional) though not the same.
• My upcoming weapon (me)
• Counterbalancing planetary rotation (me) - I've not seen in fiction elsewhere, although I did base the idea from "10 ways to destroy the Earth", by The Universe (History Channel).
• Cephalodian symbiosis (me) - I had to come up with a [good] reason how Cephalodians could achieve space stage technologies using their own ecology purely by symbiosis. This is possible only because all life on their homeworld evolved from run-away bionano-tech.
• Medical procedures using teleporters (me again) - Why hasn't anyone thought of this?
• Taldar technologies (Technobliterator/me) - 5th dimensional weapons: "Fate", where the Taldar can write down strict paths for particle worldlines, stopping wavefunction from brannching into multiple universes; the spacetime bowl used to flash freeze the quantumhorde; and finally the god-hammer that compresses gyronic conciousness into lower dimensions.
• The Box (Technobliterator) - Arguably technology.
• Xhodocto chaos X-waves (Xhodocto3546) - An x-wave is a mathematical solution, in abstract it is possible for an X-wave to carry infinite energy, though in real life they do not. But what do the Xhodocto have at their disposal?
• Fluidic shields (FalcoPunch) - I'm not sure if I've seen liquid/fluid shields elsewhere.
• Juridium (Jovar1) - A porous armour that seems to be able to absorb incoming energy.
• LEZIAPETSSHIT(GreatDestroyer12) - A math nerd's superweapon, able to rely on purely theoretical and mathematical principles to visit devastation on vast expanses of space.
• Bosonic Obliterator(GreatDestroyer12) - A weapon that uses the property of the Higg's Field and Higg's Boson to perform abrakadabra on large expanses of land.

Xeelee Sequence stuff

Species

Life is everwhere you can look in the Xeelee Sequence. Anything in quotation marks is my name for them.

• Ancient races
  • Monad - Unknown to me so far. Something to do with the Big Bang.
  • Xeelee/Proto-Xeelee - Conglomerate of species from different ages of the universe, hyperadvanced.
  • Matter/Antimatter cluster life - Eventually warred until the precursors of the quagmites deviated CP symmetry winning the war between matter and antimatter life.
  • Quagmites - Life which existed in the Quark-era Survives inside neutron stars and GUT-drives.
  • Photino Birds - Universal scale dark matter civilisation that evolved with the quagmites.
  • Snowmen - Built fractal recording devices cooled to the microwave background 13 billion years ago. Could tincker with inertia.
  • "Moths" - Ancient ship wreckage of various races over billions of years seen in Quagma Datum.
  • "Bridge builders" - Built a bridge between a planet and it's Moon using advanced technology.
  • "Honeycomb builders" - An ancient city made like a Bee hive.
  • Dreaming mould - An alien slime mould which was once an interstellar civilisation, that changed themselves into something that experiences timelessness.
• Alien civilisations and sentients - It is mentioned there were "dozens of squabbling races" in the Milky Way, all of which get conquered by Humanity.
  • Squeem - Hivemind of fish-like creatures, with no sense of mathematics.
  • Silver Ghosts - Tinkered with physical constants. Incorporated their dying homeworld's ecology into their shells. No sense of gods, but have a cultural belief the universe was flawed after a supernova destroyed their homeworld and must be corrected. Seem to have an interest in human mathematics.
  • Qax - Living convection cells, mud pools, storms on gas giants, interstellar dust and eventually the quantum foam.
  • Spline - Offer themselves as living starships.
  • Khort - A race eventually assimilated by Humanity who helped humans turn Venus's atmosphere into chalk to be mined using biotechnology developed by the Khort.
• Humanity - Due to the ruthless doctrines of Hama Druz, for 20,000 years humans were forced to neither evolve biologically or change.
  • Jasofts/Pharoes - Immortals engineered by the Qax.
  • Child Soldiers - Created by Humanity as a weapon of flesh and blood.
  • "Generational ship humans"
  • "Flux humans" - Engineered to live in a neutron star.
  • "Between Worlds humans" - Uploaded by Wignerists to live on a black hole.
  • The Transcendance - The Godlike benchmark of Humanity.
  • Other human analogues - Many others mentioned, who swim in an accretion disc (Tyranny of Heaven), or live in the vacuum of space.
• AI's - Eventually nearly everything technological in Humanity is sentient to a degree.
  • Virtuals - Virtuals cover pretty much the whole series; either AI's or mind uploaded humans (like Lieserl who was uploaded into the Sun).
  • The Conclave - Distributed AI's in the Sol System 1 million AD; virtuals, jovian brains and the giant machine weapons in Saturn capable of twisting spacetime and protecting Earth in the final battle against the Xeelee.
  • Planck Zero AI/Eve - Eve was an insane AI created by the Silver Ghosts in a pocket universe capable of greater computation.
• Wildlife
  • "Mercury's inhabitants" - Descended from aliens which crashed there billions of years before, live in underground oceans.
  • Venusian bacteria - Only a few examples remain on petri-dishes after Venus's atmosphere was reduced to a solid.
  • Earth's biosphere - Ecology becomes co-evolved with wild nanites and alien plants from Deneb and Tau Ceti.
    • "Superatom lifeforms" - Intelligent, descended from the raw supernova which the Sol System descends from and lives deep in the Earth's interior.
  • Callisto Bugs - Slowly metabolising bacteria on Callisto which percieve a different universe based on absorbing quantum numbers. Similar life lives beneath Europa.
  • "Titanian multi-biosphere" - Titan has several ecozones and panspermia-transported life. CHON-organisms, Methane-based organisms and strange mechanical spiders with an intriguing goal. Life flourished on Titan as Sol began to expand, likely a new biosphere.
  • Logic trees - Runaway nanites on Triton that live on a basis of logic and axioms. I'm not sure I understand what they are.
  • "Gossamer spiders" - Spin silk-analogue between Pluto and Charon.
  • Toolmakers/Sun-People/Forest of Ancestors - Sentient crystalline, icy "trees" that live on Port Sol (Kuiper Belt object) with superfluid blood and have a hivemind.
  • "Tundra" - Flower, lichen and worm analogues which live on a planet with an atmosphere that froze over. They live under the ice dormant, waiting for volcanic activity or any source of heat to quickly reproduce.

Spore 2/Future expansions (and possible ways to cheat)

• Disclaimer: I am in full awareness that Spore 2 is unlikely, I am also a user is satisfied with Spore, not the type who moans because it lost a couple stages and editors. If one analyses the Removed features article, there is actually very little Spore hasn't that was seen in the demos. I agree the loss of those things is regrettable, but Spore still kept to it's core principles and concepts (e.g. complex metagaming and sandbox modes, creativity and Sporepedia community to name a few). The concept was perhaps too large to fit it all in one game.

People also say the old version of Spore was "more realistic", but actually, I don't think the creature look very different. The style of Spore was always goothy to exemplify the concept of a toybox petri dish/ecology/society/galaxy.

Okay, here is a list of things I would like to see in Spore. I realise some of these are outlandish.

• Starter menu
  • Choice of world-type: I'm not so interested in terrain editing yet, randomness is cool. But what if we were able to choose more alien worlds instead of just temperate ones?
  • More style filters: The menu only allows for one.
• Cell Stage
  • Separate the stage in two; the first part could be more like the style closer to what we saw in GDC 2005, with bacteria. The second, modern cell stage seems to fit with simple metazoans of the Precrambrian period on Earth. Also I would keep panspermia for dramatic effect.
• Creature stage: Land and Aquatic - Here the game meets a T road, until Tribal you can hop from one to another.
  • More niches and ecologies - Niches and ecologies could be based on the creature parts one uses. It just seems to me that Spore has only two niches: rogue creatures and nesting creatures, which I admit, while sufficient for Spore's metagaming; is a little flat. What about living as a coral reef (swarm)? Floating as phytoplankton (safety in numbers)? Or a filter-feeder living as plankton (passive) or on the sea floor. As for land, what if we could have arboreal creatures? Burrowing creatures? Migrating herds on land or living on cliff sides (safety in numbers)? Swarm communities? Though diet, predator/symbiosis traits exist in the game, as well as habitats.
  • Creatures that evolve with you. The Space Stage is dynamic, so why not the Creature stage? Perhaps the game should pull in other players progressing animals who spawn as similar levels.
  • Mass Extinctions - We have asteroid impacts in the game, but they don't cause much damage.
• Tribal stage - I think its fine as it is.
• Civilisation and City stage: I think the City stage should be an early part of Civilisation, it would fill the technological and agricultural gap. One could build their creature's cultural identity. Then compete with other civilisations.
  • How could aquatic civilisations be achieved? It is actually possible to conceptualise how aquatic civilisations could achieve technology.
• Space Stage
  • Small fleets to protect homeplanets.
  • More Galactic Objects - I've seen Supernova effects, and I think I've even seen protoplanetary disks become stars (the green flash). But where are the hazardous Blue Supergiants that would explode our colonies? What about Nebulae we could visit instead of being effects? What about neutron stars with radio frequency to match? And I think black holes should be a danger to the ship before the Wormhole key is acquired.
  • Throw in another couple of ingame races like the Grox.
  • The Gravity tool - Another quest to godhood after meeting Steve, perhaps a quest to meet the Xyanxes or lost Screeble relics. Use the gravity tool to change galactic topography.
  • Gas giants we can visit, even if there is no functional use.
  • Become true gods by not only creating star systems and putting life on them, but by jumping into the stage and beginning again from the cell stage and up (or any desired stage).
• Editors
  • A working flora editor.

Star Trek Online stuff

What I want to see

• Locations
  • Most of the Alpha Quadrant
    • Ferenginar
    • Betazed
    • Trill Homeworld - It would be good to see how Symbiotes are placed.
    • Black Cluster - With Breen outposts.
    • First Federation - I'd like to fight the cubic warning buoys.
    • Denobula and Tellar - I'm not very interested in these places but they are major homeworlds.
  • Sol system
    • Jupiter Station
    • Earth Space Dock - Though we can visit it on foot, it would be nice to travel inside onboard ship or shuttle.
• Playable factions
  • Liberated Borg - Hugh Borg, since TNG Borg is best Borg.
  • Traders - Play as a freight trader, possibly as a Ferengi, and fight Slavers. Traders would have the highest species choice of any faction. Theoretically due to all that trade you'd get much more latinum than regular players, so you can buy those fancy holo-emitters, as compensation for having such a limited range of ships. It could start off light-hearted but get increasingly rougher and darker.
  • Cardassian faction - With expansion of the Alpha Quadrant.
• Content
  • Admiral rank - Completed after several reputation and event quests. With more episodes featuring Iconians.
  • Story featuring the connection between Voth and Gorn, perhaps Delta Quadrant content.
  • A diplomatic resolve to fighting - There is diplomacy in this game bit it is rare and difficult, as a Fed player I don't feel very much like a Starfleet captain. Perhaps as the diplomacy rank set goes up, we get an option before battle with a difficult mini-game of words.
  • Exploration - Developers have mentioned dissolving sectors into a single map, and expanding on a "5 year mission" mini-game that might involve exploring the galaxy and finding new content.
• Other improvements and additions
  • Sometimes in PVE and PVP, the mission goes badly wrong, and if one person gives up, it starts a chain. If you quit a match, you can't join any others for an hour. This sort of punishment is not fair on people who didn't give up but have no choice. Perhaps the first two to leave get punished, because after 2 in Elite missions it is unlikely anyone will join and the mission fails.
  • Transwarp to friend should be an option.
  • Fireworks made available to Silver Players :3
  • More music.
  • Working holodecks.
  • Expansion of the starship decks. Perhaps we could see our ship bound items inside?

SporeWiki resident experts

I'm not going to do this everyone, so don't ask me. But everyone is here clever, Spore attracts this sort. I hope this helps to direct anyone to these people.

• Ghelæ - Physics, science in general.
• GreatDestroyer12 - Mathematics, computer science, philosophy in general.
• Xho - Metaphysics, nihilism, death metal, language, sociology.
• Monet47 - Art, psychology, architecture.
• OluapPlayer - Memes... MEEMs.
• The Randomness - Constructive criticism, TV Tropes, Star Trek, science in general.
• Spriggs077 - Biology.
• Imperios - Fanfiction sites, religious studies.
• TheHachi - Warriors! Anime! Rapping.
• Cyrannian - Ebul and waptorness, but also diplomacy.
• Technobliterator - Coding, music in general.
• Ose - Wiki's.
• Catface - Heavy metal, Slenderman.
• Liquid Ink - Geography and politics, particularly Northern Europe and vodka. British TV, like Doctor Who and Japanese movies like Godzilla. And lets not forget the Cardassians...

Sci-fi debates

Probably my geekiest hobby, lead me into making the tier scale. I think these would make some pretty awesome battles. After careful consideration I propose the winners.

• Romulan Star empire vs. Breen Confederacy (Star Trek) = Breen
• The Swarm (Star Trek) vs. Tholian Assembly (Star Trek) = Tholians
• Dominion (Star Trek) vs. Covenant (Halo) = ?
• United Federation of Planets (Star Trek) vs.
  • Minbari (Babylon 5) = Feds
  • Wraith (Stargate) = Feds
• Alpha/Beta quadrant united (Star Trek) vs.
  • Goa'uld System Lords (Stargate) = Tough one, probably Gou'uld if they attacked quickly.
  • Reapers (Mass Effect) = Alliance.
  • Grox (Spore) = Alliance.
  • Kicath (SporeWiki) = Kicath
• Goa'uld System Lords (Stargate) vs.
  • Imperium of Man (Warhammer 40,000) = Imperium of Man
  • Covenant (Halo) = Goa'uld
• Borg Collective (Star Trek) vs.
  • Grox Meta-Empire (SporeWiki) = Merger
  • Replicators (Stargate) = Merger
  • Yuuzhan Vong (Star Wars) = Borg
  • Asgard (Stargate) = ?
  • Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars) = ?
• Galactic Empire (Star Wars Expanded Universe) vs.
  • Goa'uld System Lords combined (Stargate) = GE
  • Imperium of Man (Warhammer 40K) = GE
  • Delpha Coalition of Planets, Grox Meta-Empire or Krassio (SporeWiki) = Close one
  • The Culture (Culture novels) = Culture
  • Borg Collective (Star Trek) = GE, if they acted quickly
• Dacean Ecumene (SporeWiki) vs. The Junction (SporeWiki) = ?
• The Culture (Culture novels) vs. Forerunners (Halo) = Culture
  • vs. Delpha Coalition of Planets or Apalos/AI Netspace branch of The Civilisation (SporeWiki) = Culture subverts
  • vs. Terragen Sphere with the Archailects (Orions Arm) = Culture subverts
  • vs. Silver Ghosts (Xeelee Sequence) = Culture after a long time
  • vs. Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth (SporeWiki) = Culture
  • vs. Galactic Union (Lensman series) = Culture
  • vs. Interim Coalition of Governance (Xeelee Sequence) = Xeeleeverse humanity wins
  • vs. Daleks = Daleks EXTERMINATE.
• Xeeleeverse humanity (Exultant era) vs. Daleks = Stalemate, Daleks may win unconventionally.
• Alterans (Stargate) vs. Time Lords (Doctor Who) = Time Lords
  • vs. First Ones, Vorlon and Shadows (Babylon 5) = Alterans, maybe
  • vs. Star Trek Elders = ?
  • vs. Daleks (Doctor Who) = Daleks win eventually.
• Time Lords (Doctor Who) vs.
  • The Transcendence (Xeelee Sequence) = ?
  • Qax (Xeelee Sequence) = Time Lords.
• Xeelee vs. Ayrai'Shikua or Taldar (SporeWiki) = Stalemate.
  • vs. Daleks or Time Lords (Doctor Who) = Xeelee are what the Time Lords could be if they weren't defeated. They are also timelocked into the very multiverse.
  • vs. Downstreamers = Unknown, possibly Downstreamers but full extrauniversal extend of the Xeelee could be the same.
  • vs. Space magic or Anime = Logic breaks down here. Xeelee would win or lose depending on the narrative.

Inspired ideas for future SF shorts

I am easily inspired by the often counter-intuitively strange in physics and many other areas of science. And so these things might appear in my future fiction:

Astronomy/Astrophysics/Planetary Science

• PSR_B1828-10 - Considered to harbor putative a quark planet. - Fjord League planet?
• TrES-2b - A planet as black as coal with a yet-unknown composition. - Fjord League planet?
• Gliese 436 b - Hot, compressed ice. Okay not too weird when you consider the Earth's Inner Core is pressurized into a solid crystal. - Fjord League planet?

Theoretical physics & Black Holes

• Helium Planet - Unknown.
• Quasi stars & more crazy stars - Unknown.
• Black Holes: Membrane Paradigm, Penrose Process, Wormhole Entanglement, Superextremal black holes - Unknown, possibly technology.
• A combination of Information Theoretic Multiverse and the Block Universe, Emergence, computational consciousness vs. induction/quantum consciousness, nature of physical law, perhaps the Final Anthropic Principle for good measure too. - Trials of Kilnok/Dark Times/Tantummodo Mortem crossover.
• Light Cones, Twistors and Non-locality - Unknown
• Relativity of Simultaneity - A Time Travel side-story plot for Tantummodo Mortem.

Astrobiology, Geology other sciences

• Galactic-level endosymbiosis and evolution, with the inclusion of magical kalaza-trophs which seemingly violate physics. I've already written parts 1 and 2, which had geoscience elements. - Endosymbiosis Part 3.
• Nanotechnology & machine evolution - An idea I've had for a Station Halycon episode.

Which universe would YOU live in?

You may add your own sections with as many universes as you like.

Wormulon

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Star Trek and Stargate are close to my favourite universes. With Stargate, I love the fusion mythology and SF and storyline of the stargate and characters. It is based in the modern day but involves discoveries you'd expect from hundreds of years in the future. I love Star Trek universe's lore, politics, philosophy and aliens, though it is not very realistic but very idealistic. But still, the Trekverse is vibrant with an ever-changing plot.
Who would not want to live in the Star Wars universe? Ideal for those who wish to set off and make their names known. Unfortunately, you might lose a limb.
The Xeelee Sequence is an interesting one to me. On the one hand, it is fantastic, realistic and beautiful. It is perfect for he emergence of life and intelligence. On the other hand, baryonic life is (eventually doomed), and Humanity goes through barbaric stages making it not the best place to live at the wrong times. You are also, unlike the Star Warsverse, likely to get known. Your wordline, like in the real world, will be sucked into vast epochs of time, and would be forgotten pretty soon if known at all.
Orion's Arm is another universe full of fantastic surprises. It explores inner space as much as outer space. You could end up changing your very being. Unfortunately, I do not agree with OA's portrayal of each transapient level superseding the comprehension of the former, it seems to go against what we understand of universality and this paints pessimism on the growth of knowledge.
The Doctor Who universe is quite scary in my opinion. Modern humanity without the Doctor would have been long destroyed by evil aliens, and yet it is largely oblivious to these threats. But I suppose, travelling with the Doctor would be fun.
It sucks to be human in Babylon 5, not of human nature (which is thoroughly explored), but as a faction, then again, humans are very new on the scene, mistakes were deadly (as mankind was nearly annihilated by the Minbari) but the pay-offs would be interesting to watch as they unfold.
I suppose I do partially live in the SporeWikiverse. It is a testing ground for the imagination and may exist in a platonic world (I don't take platonism to these extremes, don't worry). Who wouldn't want to interact with their fiction?
As for the other universes, interesting places.

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Five degrees of alien-ness

"There is no cognition. There is only perception." Stephen Baxter (Vacuum Diagrams, "Secret History")

In what forms does matter allow for the complexification of life? If only a limited subset (e.g. carbon) can make stable compounds, then the argument ends here. But there is no reason to assume it is limited, for now. Life is a form of emergent complexity, an abstract process rendered by replicating strings of information, like many complexities, the same emergent phenomena can be embedded in a variety of dis-similar systems. Is there one arrow of complexity? Or many? Is life, intelligence and culture even the highest form?
Okay, so assuming stable structures can exist in more extreme conditions of matter, or alternative representations of it, how universal is life's strategies across the universe? Living in different conditions may spur on different macroscale phenotypes and psychologies. That is the bread and butter of speculative science fiction. Yet at a more abstract level, until we reach plane 5, my guess is that all could be understood as life. Think of this more as a multidimensional continuum as a series of levels:

• Plane 1 - Terrestrial environments, baryonic matter, same spacetime, mathematical ensemble, same universe

  • Carbon-based life - Carbon based life should take on a huge variety of forms.
    • On gas giants
  • Other biochemistries

• Plane 2 - Non-Terrestrial, baryonic matter, same spacetime, mathematical ensemble, same universe

  • Cosmic dust grain hypothesis - Some physicists believe it may be possible for clouds of dust and plasma to become alive.
  • Cheela - Dragon's Egg - Aliens that evolved on a neutron star through a nuclear analogue of chemistry. Only speculative ideas of this chemistry exist.

• Plane 3 - Non-bayronic matter, same spacetime, mathematical ensemble, same universe

  • Xeelee; Quagmites - Xeelee Sequence - Spacetime and defects and black holes make up part of their biology, with baryonic components.
  • Photino Birds - Xeelee Sequence - Dark matter lifeforms.

• Plane 4 - Different representation of spacetime (appearing highly non-local and acausal), mathematical ensemble, same universe

  • Qax (final evolution) - Xeelee Sequence - The Qax emerged from a turbulent representation of physical matter, and eventually became disembodied forms inhabiting the motions of galaxies down to the quantum vacuum.
  • Alien psychedelic spaces - John C Lilly - Psychonauts describe going into alien realms and meeting tremendous intelligences, either as emanations of their own being or "alien communication". Why do I include this? They are likely fictional, but experienced through extreme alterations of conscious states, just as other fictional aliens here are reached through mathematical imagination.
  • Callisto Bugs; Dreaming Mould - Xeelee Sequence - To terrestrial life, they appear as simple cells in a low energy environment. Instead they evolved through quantum biology, a mapping of "Configuration space", a made up world based on the real ideas of phase spaces. Evolved a high degree of manipulation, moving Callisto.
  • Fourier Transform aliens; Reality Intratextualisation Project - Hans Moravec; Orion's Arm - A strong platonic viewpoint that there are possible abstract representations of the physical universe are indeed real spaces co-inhabiting the same space and time. Moravec suggested a mapping of all Fourier frequencies may reveal correlations and complexities across the universe that appear like dis-associated noise from our standpoint.

• Plane 5 - Different mathematical ensemble, same or other universes

“Here is an opportunity for some wild speculation that could inform a science fiction story. What if there was something other than information flow that could cause coherant, emergent phenomena in the multiverse? What if knowledge, or something other than knowledge, could emerge from that, and begin to have purposes of its own and conform the multiverse to that purpose, as we do? Could we communicate with it? Surely not; because that would be information flow; but perhaps the story could involve some novel analogue of communication, which like quantum interference, did not involve sending messages. Let us shun parochial resolutions of this issue, like love or trust.”

- David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity.

All emergence may be classed as computational. I have not found much reason to think that way, computation is itself, emergent. A growing number of physicists even think space and time are emergent. However, information flow may well be inseparable from complexity, even models of emergent spacetime posit the existence of networks of information that represent the spins, masses and charges of local particles, giving rise to spacetime.

However, information and mathematics that can be done with it are only a limited set in this universe, and there is an infinite number of ways they could be. Max Tegmark proposed a kind of "Mathematical Ensemble" that encompasses every possible abstract structure. There would always be an infinite number of distant regions in this ensemble that would be forever beyond the reach of the human mind, simply by their scale. We could expect such regions to have structures that do conform to anything in our universe, that we probably could not even define as life.

Freedom won?

The reactions on both sides of the EU referendum are really irritating me. The truth is, we have chosen uncertainty over the EU's stability (which is build on quicksand, like everything). It is not necessarily a bad thing (perpetuating stasis is no solution). However, it is so early that nobody knows *what* is going to happen. We don't know even know if the outcome will be good or bad, because we can't even predict how much change we will actually feel (the UK establishment still there / future trade negotiations putting things right).

Change may happen on a grand scale for good and bad, or perhaps it won't really effect the public. For a good scenario, perhaps we have left a sinking ship or a system that is becoming authoritarian, perhaps our values have once again scored in the world stage. In a bad scenario perhaps this won't really change anything about Europe and our government won't be able to trade like it did. From a globalist perspective, the UK is now much harder to trade with. In the worst-case scenario, Europe splinters into miniature tyrannies, (and this could have occur even if we voted in). Whether we are in or out, an EU collapse would effect our trade. Likewise, in an optimistic sense we should eventually work things out with Europe again.

Both the Remain and Leave camps had liberals, libertarians, progressives, idealists, pragmatists, socialists, neoliberals, patriotic chestbeaters, racists and closet racists. All are currently dog-fighting. In principle in many ways I sided with Leave for those liberal reasons and I'm not as expressed above, afraid of uncertainty. I am afraid of static and undemocratic systems. That being said I ended up voting Remain out of pragmatism, mainly for the Free Market that transcends the EU. I believe in the free movement of people and ideas, and although the EU was bad for democracy it was very open in that other sense. I am absolutely shitting it for all the bad things that could happen (UK splitting up, carehomes overwhelmed with pensioners coming home, a new recession, difficulty moving around Europe etc.).

But I am NOT one of those despicable young Remain voters who are posting vitriolic hate for older generations and democracy. I am also NOT going to gloss over economic problems we may face and declare "Freedom is won". To the former: suck it, the Remain lost. To the latter: stop chestbeating and climb down from your chair. Its now time for people to work out their differences and work together.

From an epistemological perspective, everything is on quicksand and what we have is always hard won and can never be sustained. There is no clear future, but we can in principle make a better one.

A night of anarchy

I had a funny night out last night, and probably got way too drunk. Regardless, it also turned out to be a very philosophical one. A new [very small] art gallery opened in my town last month, which is free to visit. The gallery sustains itself by featuring bands, poets, storytellers, lectures and a micropub once a month aimed at mostly the middle class left of the town. Despite being event number 2, with music only lasting an hour or two, people have already moaned about noise despite this gallery being in the centre of town, near a pub notable for its rough crowd and rock music (which happened to be playing Motörhead that very night), and a night club where teenagers sneak in and get absolutely pissed. I suspect the complainants were the Conservative club on the same road, perhaps frustrated with an hour of punk rock and an aggregation of lefties once a month. Or it could just be because England is full of moaning dogooders out to squash all fun, giggles and risk, I can't tell. As a venue, the gallery has to respect the other venues and residents, and the council has essentially sided with the club, so tonight music was played inside a large shed with the doors closed.

The band was good, all the musicians looked about 20. One spookily looked like me, making us the butt of jokes. They played punk music they had written and had a lot of personality. I won't go over the details of the band, what I want to talk about is a guy with a PhD in anarchist history who was invited to speak beforehand. Now he wasn't a bad speaker and was very open minded, but with his lecture based on a completely intellectual viewpoint, his talk was fraught with misconceptions. I attended the night with two relatives, who were punks back in the day and attended various protests. Now they are very valuable to my understanding of the punk ethos, because they understand anarchism *without* an ideological belief in it, critical of both the left and the right. Punks had come to encompass a broad range of political views, and yes many adopt an aggressive style, but that is only a very shallow interpretation of punk. My understanding of punks also includes deeply want to bring forth change through activism (such as social responsibility), and that can include everything from riot to creative outlets like art and guerrilla gardening. However, today I think Punk Is Dead. It diversified. It commercialised. Punks grew up. A large section of the Middle Class *think* they are punk, and this is what I want to demonstrate. Now back to the speaker, he talked a great deal about anarchy in the historical context. The speaker talked about anarchism correctly as not a form of disorganisation, but a radical new kind of order that sweeps in to reject the old authority. There is no school of anarchism really that tries to destroy order; anarcho-communism for example wants to replace hierarchical forms of distribution with heterachial ones. It made me wonder of 18th and 19th century Enlightenment thinkers were the anarchists of their day; Nullius in verba "Take no-one's word for it" was the motto of the Royal Society enshrined in stone. But that very motto carries a defect, it undoes itself if taken to absurdity. In a similar vein, I think the speaker was trying to talk about the abstract concept of freedom, and how it conflicts with all attempts to obtain it. From this point on, the lecture ended and it was question time, with the discussion moving onto anarchism and arts. Much of this went over my head, until the discussion went back to abstractions. This is where I think the conversation began to derail: postmodernism reared its ugly head.

One woman who was an artist provided a comment that anything new is just an illusion. If authorities are rejected by new kind of order, the new of order is just a convention. Society is then trapped to an abysmal world of conventions and untruths, where anything that looks new hides the fact the mechanisms by which societies develop are just conventions lost in relativity. Now I knew this was where I could make my move. I know little of the artworld, but I know a thing or two about epistemology. The speaker merely assimilated her comment into his thinking, an intellectual in a room of polite middle class people is likely to. So I made a comment: that it is perfectly possible to have both traditions (methodological, critical, moral etc.) and an increase of knowledge in those traditions. I explained epistemologist Karl Popper's position on falliblism, which is the rejection of certainty. Popper believed in traditions like democracy and the scientific method, but he also didn't believe in certainties (which also be fallibly!). Even empirical observation in Popper's conception of science is theory-laden and thus conjectures about the world are to be rationally criticised on the basis of their explanatory power. What does that mean? What makes an explanation good is not based on what someone believes about it, but because a theory survived critical tests without being easily varied to account for the observation. It must also explain the underlying structure of the phenomenon in a way previous explanations couldn't, but any facts discovered in the previous mode remain carried over (like natural selection observed by Darwin and explained by genetic heredity). What I have described here, is two important principles, or traditions in science: the principle of testability and Occam's Razor. It demonstrates objective truth. But these traditions are theories of method too, open to their own criticism. My comment on fallibility led to this description of scientific method, which has evolved over centuries ever closer to the truth. To illustrate my point I explained the observation that apples fall to the ground under gravity. This was long thought to be caused by a force, and that idea works in our experience of reality. But we know that gravity is not a force, the appearance of objects falling to the ground is merely an object following a straight path through curved spacetime. Technologically, engineers experienced this in the development of the GPS satellites that would orbit of the Earth: they would have to correct their measurements because time is more dilated closer to the core than up in space. If GPS wasn't calibrated, it would drift by metres daily. General Relativity covers so much more than Newtonian gravity, that is why it is truer. One day, we may encounter something deeper about spacetime, as it already is tentatively happening.

Apples fall to the ground regardless of what we think about them; the speaker actually agreed with everything I said, remarking how this same principle can be ascribed to societal experiences like hunger. But I do not think he really assimilated what I was saying. He remarked in his closing opinion that all of us that night were anarchists. Yes, a bunch of town folk turning up to a bar to listen to music and an intellectual talk in a liberal country. He conflated the ideological method of obtaining freedom with freedom in and of itself, to the cheer of all the drunken middle class believing they were anarchists. No, there was nothing anarchist about it, we had to shut the damn doors even though nothing really prevented the venue from keeping them open. My two punk relatives were just shaking their heads at this point. To them, anarchy is the way that was described by the speaker would have been the whole venue being some illegal rave, or a gathering of alcoholics in a country where alcohol is banned. Or perhaps the music being played in a private field somewhere.

I think anarchy's role in modern society is best thought of as an attitude of people (it can be an 'ist, not an 'ism). People in Western Liberal Democracies today live much freer lives than centuries past, but we are not absolutely free and nor do we need to be. We have codes of morality, we have traditions and very complex systems that instigate them. Unfortunately this comes with a price: it can never be perfect and never be equal, what is free in some context is not free in another, as it would be the same for any anarchist system. That being said, it should not be a rejection to the attitude of the anarchist, sometimes when the system is unfair or negligent, people can take social responsibility. Is there a poor old woman down the road the council has ignored? An anarchist might encourage people to be charitable. Does your town council refuse to fund a food bank for the poor because they don't believe poor people exist (yes that actually happened in my town!), anarchists might solve this by planting a guerrilla garden. Of course I don't want to paint a rosy picture of anarchism, but it is one of the many facets. One of the biggest forms of anarchism today, my relative told me are the neoliberal companies which hold tremendous power with social media and virtual economies, enough to manipulate trade laws and even national policy with little to answer for. Companies like Google and Facebook can be immensely liberating in a way nothing before comes close to. But in other ways, the freedom they create is constraining on privacy and arguably liberal values, and our quality of information. Anarchists can be unconstrained by politics and is an activity that doesn't have to be anti-everything. It can be a force for good or bad, it can merely be a statement.

Just a few days ago, a bunch of activists unleashed thousands of crickets into London's restaurant chain, Byron Burgers. You won't hear about this much in regular news: the chain employed illegal workers, and when they got caught doing this by the authorities, the company summoned all the illegal workers to a board meeting in cooperation with the Home Office, which was in fact a stitch-up and they were deported immediately. Desperately poor human beings exploited by a company for years and treated by the system as mere illegals. Byron Burgers is not being held accountable by anyone in law because they cooperated. Deportation is a system that both protects the United Kingdom from fraudsters, and foreign workers from slavery, but it is also ruthless and inhumane in many other ways. Only people outside the system may see that. And hopefully this statement by activists will put off companies like Byron Burgers from doing illegal activity in the future.

Anarchism is contextual: it exists in all political and economic spheres, and it is only chaos in the narratives of other ideologies. An ideology of anarchism-for-anarchism's sake would just be dumb: one can still uphold virtues of ethical conduct. I actually have no problem with the fact that the doors have to be shut at the venue now. The anarchist can be rational in their judgement of knowing where and when to reject authority. My relatives chose not to spoil the night by slamming the speaker and all the middle class revellers. At the end of the day, we all just a bunch people want to get pissed and listen to music, and doing nothing that conflicted with our freedom. On a final note, as the music ended, I began to shout "more!" and "anarchy!!!" at the band just for lols. Soon everyone began to chant with me, and the band gladly played more music.

Anarchists, we were not. But free, we were.